From: Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 00:04:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Backport 51663:
X-Git-Tag: v2.5c2~46
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f07b590d7e459062f78f9735f7330c0046b61c14;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Backport 51663:
  Doc fix: hashlib objects don't always return a digest of 16 bytes.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libhashlib.tex b/Doc/lib/libhashlib.tex
index 62e3fc4829ff..17f5179309f9 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libhashlib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libhashlib.tex
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ arguments: \code{m.update(a); m.update(b)} is equivalent to
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[hash]{digest}{}
 Return the digest of the strings passed to the \method{update()}
-method so far.  This is a 16-byte string which may contain
-non-\ASCII{} characters, including null bytes.
+method so far.  This is a string of \member{digest_size} bytes which may
+contain non-\ASCII{} characters, including null bytes.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[hash]{hexdigest}{}