heh yeah.  while all hash functions do have internal state and someone
could conceivably want to store such a state (it basically amounts to
queued up partial block of input data if any and the current starting
IV) there are not consistent APIs to expose that and I really don't
see why it'd be worth trying to find them.

remember, hashlib doesn't have to be openssl.  there are non openssl
libtomcrypt based versions and someone nice should write a libnss
based version someday.

i'd mark this "won't fix." :)

-Greg

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:
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> Why on Earth would you want to serialize a hashlib object?
> It makes as much sense as serializing, say, a JSONEncoder.
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