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Author	gregory.p.smith
Recipients	christian.heimes, gregory.p.smith, rhettinger
Date	2016-09-09.21:05:03
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Message-id	<1473455103.65.0.0182914356048.issue26700@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I agree that adding a .default_digest_size attribute to the constructors in the hashlib module would be good... the challenge is in actually doing it. Today they are not classes, they are built-in functions that come from one of two possible extension modules. Adding properties to a built-in function is a challenge (I don't think that is even possible in the C API, PyMethodDef doesn't support that). We could hack around it, wrap them in classes, etc. But they have never been classes and there is little good reason for them to be a type.

I agree that adding a .default_digest_size attribute to the constructors in the hashlib module would be good... the challenge is in actually doing it.  Today they are not classes, they are built-in functions that come from one of two possible extension modules.  Adding properties to a built-in function is a challenge (I don't think that is even possible in the C API, PyMethodDef doesn't support that).

We could hack around it, wrap them in classes, etc.  But they have never been classes and there is little good reason for them to be a type.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2016-09-09 21:05:03	gregory.p.smith	set	recipients: + gregory.p.smith, rhettinger, christian.heimes
2016-09-09 21:05:03	gregory.p.smith	set	messageid: <1473455103.65.0.0182914356048.issue26700@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2016-09-09 21:05:03	gregory.p.smith	create