From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:26:12 +0000 (-0500) Subject: improve algorithms_* documentation X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~55^2 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8e4b3c7f55766080c3df325e5d06da3c38bb6561;p=python improve algorithms_* documentation --- diff --git a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst index 49fedec910..a693f7ef06 100644 --- a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst @@ -95,18 +95,18 @@ Hashlib provides the following constant attributes: .. data:: algorithms_guaranteed - Contains the names of the hash algorithms guaranteed to be supported + A set containing the names of the hash algorithms guaranteed to be supported by this module on all platforms. .. versionadded:: 3.2 .. data:: algorithms_available - Contains the names of the hash algorithms that are available - in the running Python interpreter. These names will be recognized - when passed to :func:`new`. :attr:`algorithms_guaranteed` - will always be a subset. Duplicate algorithms with different - name formats may appear in this set (thanks to OpenSSL). + A set containing the names of the hash algorithms that are available in the + running Python interpreter. These names will be recognized when passed to + :func:`new`. :attr:`algorithms_guaranteed` will always be a subset. The + same algorithm may appear multiple times in this set under different names + (thanks to OpenSSL). .. versionadded:: 3.2