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7919	Import hashlib instead of md5/sha when possible	Karen Tracey <kmtracey@…>	Karen Tracey	"Running under Python 2.6 (beta2) we get !DeprecationWarnings wherever we import md5 or sha, with the recommendation to use hashlib instead.  I can work on a patch to get rid of these if I can get some input on the correct way to fix it.  Looking at the uses I see so far (haven't quite checked them all yet), it seems that something like:

{{{
try:
    import hashlib
    md5_constructor = hashlib.md5
except ImportError:
    import md5
    md5_constructor = md5.new
}}}

to replace ""import md5"", plus of course updating the calls to md5.new() or md5.md5() to use md5_constructor() would work.  (Plus of course the same technique for where we import sha.)  But I don't know if that's the most elegant/practical/desirable way to handle stuff like this, so guidance would be appreciated.
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