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Re: hashlib suddenly broken

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Date 2014-09-18 13:18 -0600
Subject Re: hashlib suddenly broken
From Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.14119.1411067922.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:47 AM, John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> wrote:
> In <mailman.14109.1411057681.18130.python-list@python.org> Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Googling this showed that it's an issue with hashlib with a common
>> cause being a file called hashlib.py that gets in the way of the
>> interpreter finding the standard hashlib module, but that doesn't seem
>> to be the case:
>
> Perhaps hashlib imports some other module which has a local module of the
> same name?

It's failing on the 'import _sha' in hashlib.py:

 66   def __get_builtin_constructor(name):
 67        try:
 68          if name in ('SHA1', 'sha1'):
 69   ->        import _sha
 70              return _sha.new

(Pdb) s
ImportError: 'No module named _sha'



>
> SHA1 has been deprecated for some time.  Maybe a recent OS update finally
> got rid of it altogether?

I did not do an OS, or any other upgrade or install.

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hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 10:27 -0600
  Re: hashlib suddenly broken John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-09-18 16:47 +0000
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 13:18 -0600
      Re: hashlib suddenly broken John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-09-18 20:21 +0000
        Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 15:30 -0600
  Re: hashlib suddenly broken Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 03:07 +1000
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 03:18 +1000
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 13:22 -0600
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 13:23 -0600
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 13:46 -0600
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-09-18 13:44 -0700
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2014-09-18 22:49 +0200
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 15:38 -0600
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 15:39 -0600
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2014-09-19 00:17 +0200
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-09-18 15:19 -0700
      Re: hashlib suddenly broken Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 15:00 +1000
        Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 09:09 -0600

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