Christian Heimes added the comment: it's in the _operator module because we needed a place to put it that is *always* available. The C backend for the hashlib module is only available on platforms with OpenSSL (hence the internal name Modules/_hashopenssl.c).
The operator module already contains additional stuff like attrgetter() or itemgetter(). compare_digest is a special case of __eq__ with limited data types and a constant timing algorithm. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19259> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
