## utils.file_sha256()


Compute the SHA-256 hex digest of a file, reading it in chunks.


Usage

``` python
utils.file_sha256(
    path,
    *,
    chunk_size=_HASH_CHUNK_SIZE,
)
```


## Parameters


`path: str or Path`  
File to hash.

`chunk_size: int = _HASH_CHUNK_SIZE`  
Number of bytes to read per iteration. Defaults to 1 MiB.


## Returns


`str`  
The lowercase hexadecimal SHA-256 digest.