From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 03:15:30 +0000 (-0700) Subject: crypt docs: Fix references to `methods` attr (GH-26806) X-Git-Tag: v3.9.13~135 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c1984f39c5a34cbffc137676fa0b624ca598599f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git crypt docs: Fix references to `methods` attr (GH-26806) Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra (cherry picked from commit cae0f5d3dad6db0d13690e5952ae2015ad8b3a05) Co-authored-by: andrei kulakov --- diff --git a/Doc/library/crypt.rst b/Doc/library/crypt.rst index 73df87ca0db8..3189ece048a2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/crypt.rst +++ b/Doc/library/crypt.rst @@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ The :mod:`crypt` module defines the following functions: :func:`mksalt`, one of the ``crypt.METHOD_*`` values (though not all may be available on all platforms), or a full encrypted password including salt, as returned by this function. If *salt* is not - provided, the strongest method will be used (as returned by - :func:`methods`). + provided, the strongest method available in :attr:`methods` will be used. Checking a password is usually done by passing the plain-text password as *word* and the full results of a previous :func:`crypt` call, @@ -125,8 +124,8 @@ The :mod:`crypt` module defines the following functions: .. function:: mksalt(method=None, *, rounds=None) Return a randomly generated salt of the specified method. If no - *method* is given, the strongest method available as returned by - :func:`methods` is used. + *method* is given, the strongest method available in :attr:`methods` is + used. The return value is a string suitable for passing as the *salt* argument to :func:`crypt`.