Comment 5 for bug 323270

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 19:45 +0000, Ronald Blaschke wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 19:00 +0000, Ronald Blaschke wrote:
> >> Not exactly sure, but I think hashlib is already available in 2.5, it's
> >> just that md5 is deprecated with 2.6. Here's what I did for my 2.6
> >> install (the warning is just too annoying.)
> > It's not available in python2.4 though, and we need it to work there
> > too. Does:
> >
> > import hashlib
> >
> > hashlib.md5.new()
> >
> > work ?
>
> I'm sorry, no.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "t.py", line 3, in <module>
> hashlib.md5.new()
> AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'new'
>
> I've seen two ways to handle the situation for 2.4. Either an explict
> version check (e.g. bzrlib/osutils.py) or fallback handling (e.g.
> http://hg.stuvel.eu/flickrapi/rev/c96a2d1288ef).
I guess I'll have a look at doing the version check similar to osutils.

> But if you don't use 2.6 please feel free to put the issue aside for
> now. I don't mind the local changes I've made. But I hope it's okay if
> I report 2.6 issues/warnings still.
Yeah, please keep reporting them. it's much appreciated.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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