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Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 19:55:15 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: gh-89313: Add hashlib.file_digest to whatsnew 3.11 (GH-95965)
X-Git-Tag: v3.11.0rc2~112
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d89f5fe1f4ee630a83196a7a7bf5a03a81036bb5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

gh-89313: Add hashlib.file_digest to whatsnew 3.11 (GH-95965)


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(cherry picked from commit 0b329f4f03b3e2d603cf81c39e7c9d83da123717)

Co-authored-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
index 6c8f7913a346..99cf77dadb56 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
@@ -592,6 +592,10 @@ hashlib
   OpenSSL support.
   (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`47098`.)
 
+* Add :func:`hashlib.file_digest`, a helper function for efficient hashing
+  of files or file-like objects.
+  (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :gh:`89313`.)
+
 IDLE and idlelib
 ----------------