def file_to_md5(filename, block_size=8192):
    """Calculate the md5 hash of a file. Memory-friendly solution,
    it reads the file piece by piece. See stackoverflow.com/questions/1131220/

    :param filename: filename to convert
    :param block_size: size of block
    :return: MD5 hash of file content
    """
    md5 = hashlib.md5()
    with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
        while True:
            data = f.read(block_size)
            if not data:
                break
            md5.update(data)
    return md5.hexdigest()
Calculate the md5 hash of a file. Memory-friendly solution,
    it reads the file piece by piece. See stackoverflow.com/questions/1131220/

    :param filename: filename to convert
    :param block_size: size of block
    :return: MD5 hash of file content