New submission from anatoly techtonik: http://docs.python.org/3/library/hashlib#hashlib.hash.update
The hashlib is most useful for big chunks of data, and that means every time you need to create a wrapper for reading from files. It makes sense to allow hashlib.update accept file like object to read from. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 184301 nosy: techtonik priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: pass a string to hashlib.update type: enhancement versions: Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17436> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com