Re: hashlib suddenly broken

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On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> but I expect that's probably not where the problem lies. My *wild guess* is
>> that your system updated SSL, and removed some underlying SHA-1 library
>> needed by hashlib. SHA-1 is pretty old, and there is now a known attack on
>> it, so some over-zealous security update may have removed it.
>
> Or, more likely, the actual code for sha1 is imported from somewhere
> else, and *that* module is what's been shadowed. What happens if you
> change directory to something with absolutely no .py files in it, then
> start interactive Python and try importing hashlib? Maybe you have an
> openssl.py or something.

I still get the same error.

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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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