[New-bugs-announce] [issue7418] hashlib : the names of the different hash algorithms

[Carl Chenet]

New submission from Carl Chenet <chaica at ohmytux.com>:

Hi,

The hashlib module could provide a tuple offering the names of the
different hash algorithms which are guaranteed to be supported.

The expected result: 

>>> import hashlib
>>> hashlib.algorithms
('md5', 'sha1', 'sha224', 'sha256', 'sha384', 'sha512')

Here is a patch to do so. It also provides an update for the hashlib
documentation and a test case.

Bye,
Carl Chenet

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components: Library (Lib)
files: algorithms_constant_attribute_in_hashlib_module.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 95857
nosy: chaica_
severity: normal
status: open
title: hashlib : the names of the different hash algorithms
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15427/algorithms_constant_attribute_in_hashlib_module.diff

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