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Mention PyCryptodome
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Description
Please don't mention PyCrypto. It's not actively developed, and any software that depends on it, is a nighmare to install on windows. There is a drop in replacement called pycryptodome which is actively developed and provides wheels.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file or test is named. Search the guide's documentation for references to PyCrypto, then update the relevant mention to PyCryptodome and verify that the outdated reference has been removed.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100