Python script to calculate MD5 hash of a multipart uploaded file (relevant for Object Storages like OCI Object Storage or AWS S3)

md5_multipart_upload.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import argparse
import hashlib
import sys

def md5(f, count):
    hash_md5 = hashlib.md5()
    eof = False
    for i in range(count * 16):
        chunk = f.read(65536)
        if chunk == '':
           eof = True
           break
        hash_md5.update(chunk)
    return (hash_md5.digest(), eof)

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('filename',
                    help='File that will be used to calculate the MD5 sum on')
parser.add_argument('partsize',
                    type=int,
                    help='Size of individual parts in (MiB)')
parser.add_argument('--base64',
                    action='store_true',
                    help='Display in base64 instead of hexadecimal')
cli_options = parser.parse_args()

try:
    f=open(cli_options.filename, 'rb')
except IOError:
    print 'Cannot open file'
    sys.exit(1)

eof = False
hash_list = []
while eof == False:
    (md5_hash, eof) = md5(f, cli_options.partsize)
    hash_list.append(md5_hash)
f.close()

multipart_hash = hashlib.md5(''.join(hash_list)).hexdigest()
if cli_options.base64 == True:
    multipart_hash = multipart_hash.decode('hex').encode('base64').strip()

print '%s-%d' % (multipart_hash, len(hash_list))

Updated for Python 3. Added verbose option to show md5 checksums in hex for each part of the multipart. https://gist.github.com/kevco-us/cb408aa4123112a40428c974d74f8918

Thank you for this.

The Linux based options like s3md5 didn't work for me. Even with WSL Linux installed it wouldn't see my external drive which I had some very large files I needed to check.

But I can run Python in my Windows PowerShell and that worked well.

Hi

There is a an issue with this script. The script won't show the correct Hash for a file when --> module(<FILE_SIZE>,<PART_SIZE>) = 0
For example a 2GiB file with a part_size of 256MiB
This is due to the exit condition on the function md5

    if chunk == '':
           eof = True
           break

In order to fix this the function needs to be changed to :

import os

def md5(f, count):
    hash_md5 = hashlib.md5()
    eof = False
    file_size=os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_size

    for i in range(count * 16):
        chunk = f.read(65536)
        hash_md5.update(chunk)
        if f.tell() == file_size:
           eof = True
           break
    return (hash_md5.digest(), eof)