Chirath R wrote [edited]:
> The tags are to be passed as arguments? or are their predefined tags that
> are stored while creating the DB.
no, the tags are passed as arguments in the scan command.
> Thank you for the detailed explaination, something like this would
> appropriate?
> hashlib.sha1('blob ' + str(len(file_content)) + '\0' +
> file_content).hexdigest()
it seems ok, but of course you need to test it.
but also think about how to handle large files:
you probably shouldn't read the complete contents
in memory at once.
> I have more experience with Python than C, so would it be okay to use
> Python for this project?
sure, Python (3, obviously) would be acceptable.
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