Near Final PEP 247 - API for Cryptographic Hash Functions

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3dite3t7pu.fsf at ute.cnri.reston.va.us>,
Andrew Kuchling  <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote:
>aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:
>>
>> How about flipping Tim's suggestion around and making the string
>> argument keyword based?
>
>What exactly does that mean?

new([string=<string>])
new(key,[string=<string>])
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