Return ``a == b``. This function uses an approach designed to prevent timing
analysis by avoiding content based short circuiting behaviour, making it
- appropriate for cryptography. *a* and *b*
- must both be of the same type: either :class:`str` (ASCII only, as e.g.
- returned by :meth:`HMAC.hexdigest`), or any type that supports the
- buffer protocol (e.g. :class:`bytes`).
+ appropriate for cryptography. *a* and *b* must both be of the same type:
+ either :class:`str` (ASCII only, as e.g. returned by
+ :meth:`HMAC.hexdigest`), or any type that supports the buffer protocol
+ (e.g. :class:`bytes`).
Using a short circuiting comparison (that is, one that terminates as soon as
it finds any difference between the values) to check digests for correctness