md5 strange error

[Rami Chowdhury]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:33, catalinfest at gmail.com
<catalinfest at gmail.com> wrote:
> now i have Fedora 12
> Now when i try to use md5 , python say :
>  python
> Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 21 2009, 12:22:21)
> [GCC 4.4.1 20090818 (Red Hat 4.4.1-6)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import md5
> __main__:1: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use
> hashlib instead
>>>> import md5
>>>>
>
> Why ?

As the message says: the md5 module is deprecated, and you should use
the hashlib module instead. I believe md5 is deprecated from Python
2.6 onwards, which may be why you have not seen this message before
(Fedora 12 is the first Fedora to ship with Python 2.6).

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