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  r77252 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-01-02 14:28:48 -0800 (Sat, 02 Jan 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #3745: Undo the requirement for new buffer API only objects to be passed
  to hashlib functions in python 2.x.  The module now uses the 's*' for argument
  parsing which auto encodes unicode objects to the system default encoding for
  us.
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