tests/md5sum.py

contributing: add new file with a pointer to the wiki

This also includes what I consider to be the minimum set of steps
someone should be able to perform even if they can't run the
testsuite. Hopefully this will help new contributors know to at least
run the two checkers that find most things that (in my experience)
require manual cleanup.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Based on python's Tools/scripts/md5sum.py
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
# of the PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LICENSE VERSION 2, which is
# GPL-compatible.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import os
import sys

try:
    import hashlib
    md5 = hashlib.md5
except ImportError:
    import md5
    md5 = md5.md5

try:
    import msvcrt
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
except ImportError:
    pass

for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        fp = open(filename, 'rb')
    except IOError as msg:
        sys.stderr.write('%s: Can\'t open: %s\n' % (filename, msg))
        sys.exit(1)

    m = md5()
    try:
        for data in iter(lambda: fp.read(8192), ''):
            m.update(data)
    except IOError as msg:
        sys.stderr.write('%s: I/O error: %s\n' % (filename, msg))
        sys.exit(1)
    sys.stdout.write('%s  %s\n' % (m.hexdigest(), filename))

sys.exit(0)