Larry Martell wrote: > 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 [...] > This just started happening yesterday, and I cannot think of anything > that I've done that could cause this.
Ah, the ol' "I didn't change anything, I swear!" excuse *wink* But seriously... did you perhaps upgrade Python prior to yesterday? Or possibly an automatic update ran? Check the creation/last modified dates on: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py but I expect that's probably not where the problem lies. My *wild guess* is that your system updated SSL, and removed some underlying SHA-1 library needed by hashlib. SHA-1 is pretty old, and there is now a known attack on it, so some over-zealous security update may have removed it. If that's the case, it really is over-zealous, for although SHA-1 is deprecated, the threat is still some years away. Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have all announced that they will continue accepting it until 2017. I can't imagine why Apple would removed it so soon. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
