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["Martin Sandve Alnæs" <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

I tried it, and calling new('sha1') was twice as fast as calling
sha1() directly (0.8e-6 s per call vs 1.7e-6 s per call!), and running
a hundred updates on the object had the same timing.

-- 
Martin


2008/9/11 Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> From help(hashlib):
>
>  Named constructor functions are also available, these are much faster
>  than using new():
>
>  md5(), sha1(), sha224(), sha256(), sha384(), and sha512()
>
> I suggest using hashlib.sha1 directly.
>
> --
> Anders
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