It would be great to have type annotations added so this library can be integrated into a project using mypy without having to ignore missing imports for it.

https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/
It is not possible to install the development version of this project via pip (requirements.txt)
because this repository does not have the setup.py script.

requirements.txt

https://github.com/cakepietoast/checksumdir/archive/master.zip

Hi @cakepietoast ,
I tried this library for testing my own hashsum script if it works correctly.
But there were mismatches in various situations.
I found it encodes hash values in UTF-8 which is not a default option in Windows.
I wonder you already knew this issue.

Thanks.

Please, implement a possibility to calculate a checksum for a single file. I know that there are other tools for that, but there are no utilities which can do a checksum both for a file and a directory.

I am trying to package an app utilizing this library using PyOxidizer. PyOxidizer doesn't support pkg_resources per issue.

If you are interested in changing to something else, I would be willing to research it and submit a PR.

I'm not sure why, but I have noticed the same file gets a different hash result when run on Mac vs PC. I am transferring them using Dropbox, and not saving or otherwise editing them in between hashing.

I checked the checksumdir source and it is using 'rb' mode on open. Could there be something else causing this? Thanks!

Hi,

Your tool is helpful for us which extends the functionality of default hash tools in Linux which is just for files.
We need an additional functionality as a favor by which we can exclude directories also not only files.

crc32 is faster than other included hashes and often it is good enough.

It seems that checksumdir ignores hidden file (.*). Is there any reason for this? How would I hash my dotfile diretory?

Hello there @cakepietoast,

I just want to know if there are plans to support currently opened issues & PR or this lib will continue unsupported.

Thanks

excluded_extensions is not used when "--ignore-hidden" is False.

I verified this by getting the sha256 checksum on one of my Python libraries. I want to exclude the pyc files. However, I noticed the result changed every time I deleted one of the pyc files in the library.

I reviewed the code and it appears that this possibly got left out after the --ignore-hidden option was added.

I just wanted to say thank you for this project. I am using it in my own project and it does exactly what I need it to. I know that releasing open source is not free. It takes time and energy. Thank you.

Hi it would be helpful to have an option to include filename and structure in the checksum.
Mostly because when renaming a file the current implementation does not take into account the renaming.