Find Hash of a file Python

PROGRAM TO FIND HASH OF A FILE


# importing the hashlib module
import hashlib

def hash_file(filename):
   """"This function returns the SHA-1 hash of the file passed into it"""

   # make a hash object
   h = hashlib.sha1()

   # open file for reading in binary mode
   with open(filename,'rb') as file:

       # loop till the end of the file
       chunk = 0
       while chunk != b'':
           # read only 1024 bytes at a time
           chunk = file.read(1024)
           h.update(chunk)

   # return the hex representation of digest
   return h.hexdigest()

message = hash_file("track1.mp3")
print(message)
OUTPUT
633d7356947eec543c50b76a1852f92427f4dca9

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