app/django/utils/hashcompat.py
author Lennard de Rijk <ljvderijk@gmail.com>
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:44:33 +0200
changeset 2447 dae6715a2f19
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Prepared Survey access controls to deal with multiple logics. Also added a TODO to move a method to another view.

"""
The md5 and sha modules are deprecated since Python 2.5, replaced by the
hashlib module containing both hash algorithms. Here, we provide a common
interface to the md5 and sha constructors, preferring the hashlib module when
available.
"""

try:
    import hashlib
    md5_constructor = hashlib.md5
    sha_constructor = hashlib.sha1
except ImportError:
    import md5
    md5_constructor = md5.new
    import sha
    sha_constructor = sha.new