From: Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:51:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Doc fix: hashlib objects don't always return a digest of 16 bytes.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~2734
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f580b104a48f93937f011f6ba50c3998136d549b;p=python

Doc fix: hashlib objects don't always return a digest of 16 bytes.
Backport candidate for 2.5.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libhashlib.tex b/Doc/lib/libhashlib.tex
index 62e3fc4829..17f5179309 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libhashlib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libhashlib.tex
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ arguments: \code{m.update(a); m.update(b)} is equivalent to
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[hash]{digest}{}
 Return the digest of the strings passed to the \method{update()}
-method so far.  This is a 16-byte string which may contain
-non-\ASCII{} characters, including null bytes.
+method so far.  This is a string of \member{digest_size} bytes which may
+contain non-\ASCII{} characters, including null bytes.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[hash]{hexdigest}{}