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@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ digests. The modern term is secure hash.
There is one constructor method named for each type of :dfn:`hash`. All return
a hash object with the same simple interface. For example: use :func:`sha1` to
-create a SHA1 hash object. You can now feed this object with objects conforming
-to the buffer interface (normally :class:`bytes` objects) using the
-:meth:`update` method. At any point you can ask it for the :dfn:`digest` of the
+create a SHA1 hash object. You can now feed this object with :term:`bytes-like
+object`\ s (normally :class:`bytes`) using the :meth:`update` method.
+At any point you can ask it for the :dfn:`digest` of the
concatenation of the data fed to it so far using the :meth:`digest` or
:meth:`hexdigest` methods.