[Python-Dev] New hash algorithms: SHA3, SHAKE, BLAKE2, truncated SHA512

[Donald Stufft]

> On May 28, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> 
> But you could choose which implementation to use at compile time based
> on the autoconf output, right?

I think we should follow what hashlib already does. If we want to change the way it works that's fine but these hashes shouldn't be special. They should work the way that all the other standard hashes in hashlib work.