I am on a mac running 10.8.5, python 2.7 Suddenly, many of my scripts started failing with:
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha1 Googling this showed that it's an issue with hashlib with a common cause being a file called hashlib.py that gets in the way of the interpreter finding the standard hashlib module, but that doesn't seem to be the case: >>> import hashlib ERROR:root:code for hash sha1 was not found. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 139, in <module> globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 103, in __get_openssl_constructor return __get_builtin_constructor(name) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 91, in __get_builtin_constructor raise ValueError('unsupported hash type %s' % name) ValueError: unsupported hash type sha1 And that file has not changed any time recently: $ ls -l /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5013 Apr 12 2013 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py This just started happening yesterday, and I cannot think of anything that I've done that could cause this. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list