[issue3745] _sha256 et al. encode to UTF-8 by default

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Gregory P. Smith wrote:
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> Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> added the comment:
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> lemburg - see which issue #?

Sorry, the message got truncated for some reason.

I was referring to http://bugs.python.org/issue3745

This was discussed on python-dev: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-December/094593.html

> Anyways perhaps the right thing to do instead of trunk r65961 would have 
> been to change the s# to an s*.

That would have worked as well.

> Undoing it will be more painful now as several changes have gone in since 
> that require undoing and possibly redoing differently.

Using s* should pretty much avoid the need to use GET_BUFFER_VIEW_OR_ERROUT(),
so if you want to keep the other changes, removing the use of the
macro should be fairly straight-forward, unless I'm missing something.

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