STINNER Victor <vstinner@redhat.com> added the comment:

None of the hashlib functions are taking keyword arguments for data: ...

So it's just a documentation issue, no? https://docs.python.org/dev/library/hashlib.html#creating-hash-objects Juuso Lehtivarjo: do you want to write a pull request to fix the documentation? ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python, vstinner _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33729> _______________________________________