[issue17436] hashlib: add a method to hash the content of a file

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes added the comment:

For readfile() it might make more sense to implement it directly in C and let OpenSSL's BIO layer handle IO internally. It's more efficient and you can release the GIL around the whole operation.

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