[issue21306] PEP 466: backport hmac.compare_digest

[Donald Stufft]

Donald Stufft added the comment:

try:
    data = data.encode("ascii")
except UnicodeEncodeError:
    raise TypeError("comparing unicode with non-ASCII characters is not supported")

?

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