Ben Rf wrote:
I'm new to programming and i'd like to write a program that will parse
a list produced by md5summer and give me a report in a text file on
which md5 sums appear more than once and where they are located.
This should do the trick:
"""
import fileinput
md5s = {}
for line in fileinput.input():
md5, filename = line.rstrip().split()
md5s.setdefault(md5, []).append(filename)
for md5, filenames in md5s.iteritems():
if len(filenames) > 1:
print "\t".join(filenames)
"""
Put this in md5dups.py and you can then use
md5dups.py [FILE]... to find duplicates in any of the files you
specify. They'll then be printed out as a tab-delimited list.
Key things you might want to look up to understand this:
* the dict datatype
* dict.setdefault()
* dict.iteritems()
* the fileinput module
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