Message 162882 - Python tracker

Message162882

Author	pitrou
Recipients	christian.heimes, fijall, hynek, loewis, ncoghlan, petri.lehtinen, pitrou
Date	2012-06-15.10:31:56
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> I could wrap up a quick C implementation if you like. The operator > module is a better place for a total_compare() function. Do you a > agree? I think the function is fine in either hashlib or hmac. Putting it in one of these modules is a hint that it's security-related. On the other hand, linking to it from these modules' documentations is just as fine, if it is put in the operator module. If you make a C implementation, it could also be interesting to cover the pure-ASCII unicode case.

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> I could wrap up a quick C implementation if you like. The operator
> module is a better place for a total_compare() function. Do you a
> agree?

I think the function is fine in either hashlib or hmac. Putting it in
one of these modules is a hint that it's security-related. On the other
hand, linking to it from these modules' documentations is just as fine,
if it is put in the operator module.

If you make a C implementation, it could also be interesting to cover
the pure-ASCII unicode case.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2012-06-15 10:31:57	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, loewis, ncoghlan, christian.heimes, fijall, petri.lehtinen, hynek
2012-06-15 10:31:56	pitrou	link	issue15061 messages
2012-06-15 10:31:56	pitrou	create