https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1700cc4d76e9c373268158e0d622452477c56f4e
commit: 1700cc4d76e9c373268158e0d622452477c56f4e
branch: main
author: Bénédikt Tran <[email protected]>
committer: picnixz <[email protected]>
date: 2025-08-26T10:38:53Z
summary:
gh-136565: use SHA-256 for `hashlib.__doc__` example instead of MD5 (#138157)
files:
M Lib/hashlib.py
diff --git a/Lib/hashlib.py b/Lib/hashlib.py
index 8e7083ba692348..6c73eb9f31f8e4 100644
--- a/Lib/hashlib.py
+++ b/Lib/hashlib.py
@@ -36,21 +36,21 @@
efficiently compute the digests of data that share a common
initial substring.
-Assuming that Python has been built with MD5 support, the following computes
-the MD5 digest of the byte string b'Nobody inspects the spammish repetition':
+Assuming that Python has been built with SHA-2 support, the SHA-256 digest
+of the byte string b'Nobody inspects the spammish repetition' is computed
+as follows:
>>> import hashlib
- >>> m = hashlib.md5()
+ >>> m = hashlib.sha256()
>>> m.update(b"Nobody inspects")
>>> m.update(b" the spammish repetition")
- >>> m.digest()
- b'\xbbd\x9c\x83\xdd\x1e\xa5\xc9\xd9\xde\xc9\xa1\x8d\xf0\xff\xe9'
+ >>> m.digest() # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
+ b'\x03\x1e\xdd}Ae\x15\x93\xc5\xfe\\\x00o\xa5u+7...'
More condensed:
- >>> hashlib.md5(b"Nobody inspects the spammish repetition").hexdigest()
- 'bb649c83dd1ea5c9d9dec9a18df0ffe9'
-
+ >>> hashlib.sha256(b"Nobody inspects the spammish repetition").hexdigest()
+ '031edd7d41651593c5fe5c006fa5752b37fddff7bc4e843aa6af0c950f4b9406'
"""
# This tuple and __get_builtin_constructor() must be modified if a new
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