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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list