[jira] Assigned: (AVRO-451) Try to use hashlib in Python implementation and fall back to md5 if we can't find it

["Jeff Hammerbacher (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-451?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jeff Hammerbacher reassigned AVRO-451:
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    Assignee: Jeff Hammerbacher  (was: Bruce Mitchener)

> Try to use hashlib in Python implementation and fall back to md5 if we can't find it
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>                 Key: AVRO-451
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-451
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: python
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.0
>            Reporter: Jeff Hammerbacher
>            Assignee: Jeff Hammerbacher
>             Fix For: 1.3.2
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>         Attachments: avro_python_hashlib.diff
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> hashlib, new in 2.5, seems to be the better way to do things (http://docs.python.org/library/hashlib.html). We want to support Python 2.4, so the best way to handle this situation is to try to import hashlib and fall back to md5 if we can't find it (similar to the json/simplejson dance).

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