Get the MD5 hash of big files in Python

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00:00 Question
00:38 Accepted answer (Score 190)
01:28 Answer 2 (Score 231)
02:22 Answer 3 (Score 124)
03:21 Answer 4 (Score 52)
03:38 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1131...

Question links:
[hashlib]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/hashli...
[md5]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/md5.ht...
[hashlib.md5()]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/hashli...

Answer 1 links:
[the comments provided by Frerich Raabe]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1131...
[jacksum]: http://www.jonelo.de/java/jacksum/

Answer 3 links:
[Piotr Czapla's method]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1131...

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