ubuntu - md5sum of a file without file name assigning to a variable in python -

i'm trying assign md5 sum of file (in ubuntu) variable(any) in python script below

alist=subprocess.check_output(["md5sum",filename])

i want assign sum variable used below code it's not working

alist=subprocess.check_output(["md5sum",filename," | awk '{print $1}'"])

please me find out solution

thanks in advance

rather shelling out perform md5sum, use python's inbuilt hashlib.md5 implementation:

import hashlib  open(filename, 'rb') f:     hexdigest = hashlib.md5(f.read()).hexdigest()     print(hexdigest)

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