Adam Glenn added the comment: I did some more testing and verified that this is a problem caused by the fact that trans_5C is a string and not unicode. It also happens when trans_36 is sent to key.translate().
Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug 1 2012, 05:14:39) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import hmac >>> hmac.new(u'key', u'msg') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "hmac.py", line 132, in new return HMAC(key, msg, digestmod) File "hmac.py", line 72, in __init__ self.inner.update(key.translate(trans_36)) TypeError: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode >>> ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16063> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com