Compute MD5SUM of a File in Python

md5sum.py

# Compute md5sum of a file

# File: md5sum.py
# Debajyoti Nandi
# 2016-11-09

# Python 2

import os
import hashlib

def md5sum(fname):
    """Find the md5sum hash of the content of a given file."""
    blocksize = 65536
    hash_md5 = hashlib.md5()
    with open(fname, "rb") as f:
        for block in iter(lambda: f.read(blocksize), b""):
            hash_md5.update(block)
    return hash_md5.hexdigest()