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Re: Does hashlib support a file mode?

From Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Does hashlib support a file mode?
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Date 2011-07-06 15:43 -0400
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Phlip wrote:

> If I call m = md5() twice, I expect two objects.
> 
> I am now aware that Python bends the definition of "call" based on
> where the line occurs. Principle of least surprise.

Actually, in

def file_to_hash(path, m = hashlib.md5()):

hashlib.md5 *is* called once; that is when the def statement is executed.

Later on, when file_to_hash gets called, the value of m is either used as 
is, as the default parameter, or is replaced for the duration of the call by 
another object supplied by the caller.

	Mel.

	

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Re: Does hashlib support a file mode? Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> - 2011-07-06 12:07 -0700
  Re: Does hashlib support a file mode? geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-07-06 15:15 -0400
  Re: Does hashlib support a file mode? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-07-06 14:42 -0500
  Re: Does hashlib support a file mode? Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2011-07-06 15:43 -0400
    Re: Does hashlib support a file mode? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2011-07-07 14:29 +0300
      Re: Does hashlib support a file mode? Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2011-07-07 13:13 +0100
  Re: Does hashlib support a file mode? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-06 13:48 -0600
  Re: Does hashlib support a file mode? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-07-06 13:24 -0700

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