[Distutils] add hash algorithm agility to RECORD

[Daniel Holth]

It's shorter, and it's used extensively in the digital signature format I'm
using.
On Sep 7, 2012 6:58 AM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 September 2012 17:34, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Proposed edits to
> https://bitbucket.org/dholth/python-peps/changeset/9c26fa50
> >
> > In wheel I use urlsafe_b64encode_nopad() which omits the trailing =
> > characters, but although very easy to implement isn't included in the
> > stdlib. In this spec I use the stdlib urlsafe_b64encode().
>
> Why urlsafe_b64encode, rather than just hexdigest which is what is used
> for md5?
>
> Paul.
>
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