Proposed edits to https://bitbucket.org/dholth/python-peps/changeset/9c26fa50
In wheel I use urlsafe_b64encode_nopad() which omits the trailing = characters, but although very easy to implement isn't included in the stdlib. In this spec I use the stdlib urlsafe_b64encode().
diff -r 23f9640c2020 -r 9c26fa508424 pep-0376.txt --- a/pep-0376.txt Thu Sep 06 12:09:58 2012 -0400 +++ b/pep-0376.txt Thu Sep 06 12:24:40 2012 -0400 @@ -218,11 +218,16 @@
- an absolute path, using the local platform separator
-- the **MD5** hash of the file, encoded in hex. Notice that `pyc` and `pyo` - generated files don't have any hash because they are automatically produced - from `py` files. So checking the hash of the corresponding `py` file is - enough to decide if the file and its associated `pyc` or `pyo` files have - changed. +- a hash of the file's contents. + Notice that `pyc` and `pyo` generated files don't have any hash because + they are automatically produced from `py` files. So checking the hash + of the corresponding `py` file is enough to decide if the file and + its associated `pyc` or `pyo` files have changed. + + The hash is either the empty string, the **MD5** hash of + the file, encoded in hex, or the hash algorithm as named in + ``hashlib.algorithms``, followed by the equals character ``=``, + followed by the hash digest as encoded with ``urlsafe_b64encode``.
- the file's size in bytes
@@ -391,9 +396,9 @@
And following methods:
-- ``get_installed_files(local=False)`` -> iterator of (path, md5, size) +- ``get_installed_files(local=False)`` -> iterator of (path, hash, size)
- Iterates over the `RECORD` entries and return a tuple ``(path, md5, size)`` + Iterates over the `RECORD` entries and return a tuple ``(path, hash, size)`` for each line. If ``local`` is ``True``, the path is transformed into a local absolute path. Otherwise the raw value from `RECORD` is returned.