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Automatically Detect Corrupted Files Using SHA-256 Checksums in Python

Compute SHA-256 checksums of files and compare them to detect corruption in Python.

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import hashlib
import os

def compute_sha256(filepath: str) -> str:
    """Compute SHA-256 checksum of a file."""
    sha256 = hashlib.sha256()
    with open(filepath, 'rb') as f:
        for chunk in iter(lambda: f.read(4096), b''):
            sha256.update(chunk)
    return sha256.hexdigest()

def validate_file_int…

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