Clarify that md5 is in the algorithms_guaranteed list despite what

some upstream vendors may do to their odd "FIPS compliant" builds.
issue15468.

diff --git a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst
index 085f99d0dc28baaadea98abf5777bca1aaa2ce5a..93bcc91f91dd1dbfbc6e83c88f46699c526b12e1 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst
@@ -104,7 +104,9 @@ Hashlib provides the following constant attributes:
 .. data:: algorithms_guaranteed
 
    A set containing the names of the hash algorithms guaranteed to be supported
-   by this module on all platforms.
+   by this module on all platforms.  Note that 'md5' is in this list despite
+   some upstream vendors offering an odd "FIPS compliant" Python build that
+   excludes it.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.2