new is missing in module hmac SHA-based encryption function in Python

[Matt Nordhoff]

Hailong Wang wrote:
> Matt,
> 
> Thanks for response, I changed my script to hw_hmac.py, but still does
> not work.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:/Python25/hw_script/my_hmac.py", line 1, in <module>
>     import hmac
>   File "C:\Python25\hw_script\hmac.py", line 4, in <module>
>     myhmac = hmac.new("test")
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'new'
>>>>

(Note to anyone else: He responded off-list saying he got it to work. :-) )
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