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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2014-03-11 19:26:12 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2014-03-11 19:26:12 (GMT) |
| commit | 8e4b3c7f55766080c3df325e5d06da3c38bb6561 (patch) | |
| tree | 9940010140748a9af620c99854c7b4ec3d7bbe3b | |
| parent | bfca3ca114c1ca6fc824c103a7a5048986333a42 (diff) | |
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improve algorithms_* documentation
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diff --git a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst index 49fedec..a693f7e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst @@ -95,18 +95,18 @@ Hashlib provides the following constant attributes: .. data:: algorithms_guaranteed - Contains the names of the hash algorithms guaranteed to be supported + A set containing the names of the hash algorithms guaranteed to be supported by this module on all platforms. .. versionadded:: 3.2 .. data:: algorithms_available - Contains the names of the hash algorithms that are available - in the running Python interpreter. These names will be recognized - when passed to :func:`new`. :attr:`algorithms_guaranteed` - will always be a subset. Duplicate algorithms with different - name formats may appear in this set (thanks to OpenSSL). + A set containing the names of the hash algorithms that are available in the + running Python interpreter. These names will be recognized when passed to + :func:`new`. :attr:`algorithms_guaranteed` will always be a subset. The + same algorithm may appear multiple times in this set under different names + (thanks to OpenSSL). .. versionadded:: 3.2 |