[issue37218] Default hmac.new() digestmod has not been removed from documentation

Cheryl Sabella added the comment: The wording for this was fixed with the PR for #33604. -- nosy: +cheryl.sabella resolution: -> duplicate stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> HMAC default to MD5 marked as to be removed in 3.6 ___

[issue37218] Default hmac.new() digestmod has not been removed from documentation

Change by Gregory P. Smith : -- nosy: +christian.heimes ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https

[issue37218] Default hmac.new() digestmod has not been removed from documentation

Leandro Lima added the comment: In my view, this function signature changed too silently. Even using static type checkers, I could only find about this compatibility breaking change when actually running the code. If I understand well the reason it was done this way, digestmod needed to bec

[issue37218] Default hmac.new() digestmod has not been removed from documentation

Change by Alex Willmer : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +13814 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/13947 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue37218] Default hmac.new() digestmod has not been removed from documentation

Alex Willmer added the comment: Scratch the part about documented signature, it's still `hmac.new(... digestmod=None)`, the check happens in the body of the function -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue37218] Default hmac.new() digestmod has not been removed from documentation

New submission from Alex Willmer : Until Python 3.8 hmc.new() defaulted the digestmod argument to 'hmac-md5'. This was deperecated, to be removed in Python 3.8. In Python 3.8.0b1 it is gone, e.g. Python 3.8.0b1 (default, Jun 6 2019, 03:44:52) [GCC 7.4.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "c