[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] jderose 044 Add sha1, md5 to compat

[Rob Crittenden]

Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Jason Gerard DeRose wrote:
>> This patch adds `sha1` and `md5` classes to the `compat` module.  These
>> will work in Python 2.4 - 2.5 without raising a `DeprecationWarning`.
>>
> 
> I wonder if we should import both the name sha and sha1. If we did that 
> we could modify ipauuid to import from compat directly. This would be 
> nicer too because it shortens the diffs from the upstream uuid.py.
> 
> The reason we have our own local copy is partly due to the fact that 
> uuid.py imports ctypes which is not at all SELinux friendly. That and so 
> we can work on Python 2.4 systems.
> 
> rob
>

Ok, as Jason suggested, we can do something like:

from compat import sha1 as sha

ack, pushed to master