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Python 2.6 incompatibilities

Bug #293178 reported by Heiko Rommel on 2008-11-03

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GNU Mailman	Fix Released	High	Barry Warsaw

Bug Description

Mailman uses the md5 and sha modules in numerous places.
The usage of these modules is deprecated in Python 2.6.
The errors look like this:

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/update:37: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
import md5
/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py:32: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
import sha

See original description

Related branches

lp:~barry/mailman/py26

Merged into lp:mailman/2.1

Mark Sapiro: Needs Fixing (code) on 2008-12-01

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Heiko Rommel (rommel-suse) wrote on 2008-11-03:

backward-compatible fix that creates a wrapper module to either use hashlib or the old modules Edit (14.6 KiB, text/x-diff)

Changed in mailman:
assignee:	nobody → barry

Heiko Rommel (rommel-suse) on 2008-11-11

description:

updated

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote on 2008-11-11:

I have a branch that fixes this and other Python 2.6 compatibility problems. I'm just doing a little more testing, but I will push the branch for review asap.

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote on 2008-11-13:

String exceptions are no longer supported in Python 2.6. See bug 297628