Extra Newby question - Trying to create md5 File Listing

[James Johnston]

I've never written a Python program before and I'm trying to read a config
file with file path/names (eg. c:\\python24\\*.dll, ... *.exe) to create an
output file of filename + md5 values. I'm confused. I'm trying to learn
how to use Wing IDE and step through the Stack Data. It seems to be
working but on the

for fn in filelist:
data = file(fn,'rb').read()​

I get a

IOError: (2, 'No such file or directory', 'c')

Traceback (innermost last):

File "c:\Python examples\md5makr_test4.py", line 1, in ?
#!/usr/bin/python
File "c:\Python examples\md5makr_test4.py", line 20, in ?
data = file(fn,'rb').read()​

Code:
#!/usr/bin/python
# Filename: md5makr_test4.py

import sys, os, os.path, glob, md5, ConfigParser

config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read('md5makr.ini')

outputfilname = config.get('general', 'outputfile')
f = file(outputfilname,'wt')
fileconfig = config.get('general', 'inputfiles')

fl = file(fileconfig,'r')
fileData = fl.read()

for f1 in glob.glob(fileData):
filelist = f1

for fn in filelist:
data = file(fn,'rb').read()
hexstring = md5.md5(data).hexdigest()
f.write(fn + '\t' + hexstring + '/n')

f.close()

Any insight or help would be appreciated.

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

I've never written a Python program before and I'm trying to read a config
file with file path/names (eg. c:\\python24\\*.dll, ... *.exe) to create an
output file of filename + md5 values. I'm confused. I'm trying to learn
how to use Wing IDE and step through the Stack Data. It seems to be
working but on the

for fn in filelist:
data = file(fn,'rb').read()​

I get a

IOError: (2, 'No such file or directory', 'c')
​

Offhand, your "filelist" is NOT just files, but seems to be path
parts.... That "c" looks suspiciously like the "c" from "c:\"
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[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Offhand, your "filelist" is NOT just files, but seems to be path
parts.... That "c" looks suspiciously like the "c" from "c:\"

OR, as I just realized... Your "filelist" is NOT a list of files,
but a string from your config file...

A list of files

filelist = ["c:\\some.file", "d:\\another.file"]
for fn in filelist:

.... print fn
....
c:\some.file
d:\another.file

A string from some other file.... print fn
....
c <<<<<<<<<<
:
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,
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[Jim]

Thanks Dennis, I'm feeling very stupid. You're right about the config
file containing drive/path/filenames (eg. c:\python24\*.exe or
whatever). I want to output a text file that contains records like
c:\python24\pythonw.exe[tab]md5 value, ... next file record. The
following snippet works but I don't know how to loop through using the
config value to get e glob for each file. I'll keep working at it.

filelist = glob.glob('c:\\python24\\*.exe')

# print 'filelist is', filelist

for fn in filelist:
data = file(fn,'rb').read()
hexstring = md5.md5(data).hexdigest()
f.write(fn + '\t' + hexstring + '\n')

f.close()

Thanks.