[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

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[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

Christian Heimes added the comment: Your CLA came through and I have applied your patch. Thank you very much for your contribution! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 636947fe131e by Christian Heimes in branch 'default': Issue 18240: The HMAC module is no longer restricted to bytes and accepts http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/636947fe131e -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Pytho

[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

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[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

Christian Heimes added the comment: It may take a day or two until your signature makes it through red tape. I'll get back to you. :) -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

Jonas Borgström added the comment: Of course. I've now signed and filed the agreement. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

Christian Heimes added the comment: Thanks for your update. As far as I can tell you haven't signed our contributor agreement yet. Can you please do so? http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/ http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/ -- stage: needs patch -> patch review __

[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

Jonas Borgström added the comment: Patch updated to include tests and versionchanged tags -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30637/hmac2.patch ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

Christian Heimes added the comment: Thanks for your patch! Please add tests for the new feature. The documentation needs versionchanged tags, too. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

Changes by Jonas Borgström : -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30628/hmac.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

Christian Heimes added the comment: Good idea! We can also lift the restriction for ``key`` a bit. It can also take a bytearray as argument. bytearray has translate() and supports bytes + bytearay. -- assignee: -> christian.heimes ___ Python tracke

[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- nosy: +christian.heimes, gregory.p.smith stage: -> needs patch type: behavior -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker

[issue18240] hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"

New submission from Jonas Borgström: Problem: In hmac.py there's a type check that verifies that the msg parameter is of type bytes(). if not isinstance(msg, bytes): raise TypeError("expected bytes, but got %r" % type(msg).__name__) That is incorrect. The hmac module should also work with