assignee = 'https://github.com/tiran'
closed_at = <Date 2013-07-01.11:09:50.812>
created_at = <Date 2013-06-17.10:38:28.690>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'hmac unnecessarily restricts input to "bytes"'
updated_at = <Date 2013-11-12.08:43:07.457>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/jborgstrom'

activity = <Date 2013-11-12.08:43:07.457>
actor = 'mpb'
assignee = 'christian.heimes'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2013-07-01.11:09:50.812>
closer = 'christian.heimes'
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2013-06-17.10:38:28.690>
creator = 'jborgstrom'
dependencies = []
files = ['30628', '30637']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 18240
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 10.0
messages = ['191321', '191324', '191374', '191395', '191396', '191398', '191399', '191757', '192120', '192121']
nosy_count = 5.0
nosy_names = ['gregory.p.smith', 'christian.heimes', 'python-dev', 'jborgstrom', 'mpb']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue18240'
versions = ['Python 3.4']