using python to parse md5sum list

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On 5 Mar 2005 19:54:34 -0800, rumours say that ben.rafael at gmail.com (Ben Rf)
might have written:

[snip]

>the end end goal is to have a way of finding duplicate files that are
>scattered across a lan of 4 windows computers.

Just in case you want to go directly to that goal, check this:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/messages/048e292ec9adb82d

It doesn't read a file at all, unless there is a need to do that.  For example,
if you have ten small files and one large one, the large one will not be read
(since no other files would be found with the same size).

In your case, you can use the find_duplicate_files function with arguments like:
r"\\COMPUTER1\SHARE1", r"\\COMPUTER2\SHARE2" etc
-- 
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I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...