Putting it all together III

Compare the md5sum against that on the system
Return true if the file is modified

def isModified(fileName, fileMD5):
    m = md5.new()
    f = open(fileName,"r")
    data = f.read()
    f.close()
    m.update(data)
    if fileMD5 != m.hexdigest():
        return 1
    else:
        return 0