Most viewed recipes tagged "restore"http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/restore/views/2013-03-03T18:05:42-08:00ActiveState Code RecipesSave and restore SHA-512 internal state (Python)
2013-03-03T18:05:42-08:00Dima Tisnekhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4068698/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578479-save-and-restore-sha-512-internal-state/
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Python
recipe 578479
by <a href="/recipes/users/4068698/">Dima Tisnek</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/database/">database</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/inner/">inner</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pickle/">pickle</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/restore/">restore</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sha512/">sha512</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/state/">state</a>).
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<p>If you have a very long input to hash, you may want to save your progress.</p>
<p>CPython doesn't normally let you, but it's easy to hack around via ctypes</p>