From 27f04412b5874374f00aab388c9a8c37d257f1ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Stasiak Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 20:13:35 +0200 Subject: Document that Fernet accepts text keys (#5255) Keys are passed to base64.urlsafe_b64decode for decoding and it accepts text as well as bytes. --- docs/fernet.rst | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/fernet.rst b/docs/fernet.rst index 9b95621e..c01d18ca 100644 --- a/docs/fernet.rst +++ b/docs/fernet.rst @@ -23,9 +23,10 @@ has support for implementing key rotation via :class:`MultiFernet`. >>> f.decrypt(token) b'my deep dark secret' - :param bytes key: A URL-safe base64-encoded 32-byte key. This **must** be - kept secret. Anyone with this key is able to create and - read messages. + :param key: A URL-safe base64-encoded 32-byte key. This **must** be + kept secret. Anyone with this key is able to create and + read messages. + :type key: bytes or str .. classmethod:: generate_key() -- cgit v1.2.3