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Recipe: calculate SHA256 hash of file in Python

import hashlib

FILENAME = ''
hasher = hashlib.sha256()

with open(FILENAME, "rb") as f:
    for byte_block in iter(lambda: f.read(4096),b""):
        hasher.update(byte_block)
    print(hasher.hexdigest())
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