From 8aa26a2171db550e3ce8e75298c08e4e83ade5d8 2011-11-19 01:54:20
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>
Date: 2011-11-19 01:54:20
Subject: [PATCH] Update docstring to refer to hashlib.

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diff --git a/IPython/lib/security.py b/IPython/lib/security.py
index fb50f11..880bee3 100644
--- a/IPython/lib/security.py
+++ b/IPython/lib/security.py
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ def passwd(passphrase, algorithm='sha1'):
     passphrase : str
         Password to hash.
     algorithm : str
-        Hashing algorithm to use.
+        Hashing algorithm to use (e.g, 'sha1' or any argument supported
+        by :func:`hashlib.new`).
 
     Returns
     -------