MD5 File Checksum

import hashlib

for filename in os.listdir(directory):
    if filename.endswith(".xml"):
        #print(directory+filename)
        with open(directory+filename, encoding="utf8") as file_to_check:
            # read contents of the file
            data = file_to_check.read() 
            # pipe contents of the file through
            md5checksum = hashlib.md5(data.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()

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