Adding a note for more clarity

nouraellm · web-flow · commit e378f9cd6c2d · 2022-03-01T17:46:13.000+01:00
If md5sha1sum is not installed the following error will be thrown:

/bin/sh: md5sum: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 118, in &lt;module&gt;
    d = compute_checksums(dirname='.', suffix='.py')
  File "test.py", line 77, in compute_checksums
    res, stat = compute_checksum(name)
  File "test.py", line 37, in compute_checksum
    return pipe(cmd)
  File "test.py", line 62, in pipe
    assert stat is None
AssertionError

The solution is to install it on the operating system
diff --git a/code/find_duplicates.py b/code/find_duplicates.py
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ def compute_checksum(filename):
 
     filename: string
     """
+    # Note: installing md5sha1sum is required
+
     cmd = 'md5sum ' + filename
     return pipe(cmd)
 
