Daniel Eloff <dan.el...@gmail.com> added the comment: I have indeed seen __get_builtin_constructor fail in practice, in the python build in the Ubuntu repository if IIRC. I seem to recall the problem was that python was using a version of openssl that didn't include all of hash algorithms, probably because a python library or the process hosting python also had a dependency on libssl and had it loaded already.
But there is also the issue that Python is a language with many implementations now, and in fact, it's unlikely that CPython will remain the defacto implementation forever. Having a more robust hashlib.py that can handle missing algorithm implementations makes a lot of sense (.NET for example has no implementation of some of the more esoteric SHA hashes.) I remember that in the early days of IronPython, hashlib.py had to be completely replaced to be used. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6281> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
