ImportError: No module named 'Crypto.HASH' but pycryto installed

Question

I am trying to load pycrypto module. When I do

import Crypto

I get no error but when I do from Crypto.HASH import SHA256 , I am getting ImportError

>>> import Crypto
>>> hash = SHA256.new()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
    hash = SHA256.new()
NameError: name 'SHA256' is not defined
>>> from Crypto.HASH import SHA256
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
    from Crypto.HASH import SHA256
ImportError: No module named 'Crypto.HASH'
>>>

OS : Windows 8 Python : 3.5 32 Bit

Thank you.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 15 '16 at 11:06

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You are misspelling it, the correct module name is Crypto.Hash:

>>> from Crypto.Hash import SHA256
>>> h=SHA256.new()
>>> h.update(b"Hello")
>>> h.hexdigest()
'185f8db32271fe25f561a6fc938b2e264306ec304eda518007d1764826381969'

answered Sep 15 '16 at 11:06

Byte Commander

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Next time just flag to close or vote to close the question as off-topic, because this is a typo and will probably not be helpful to future readers. – Artjom B. Sep 15 '16 at 17:11
@ArtjomB. Okay, I will consider this in the future. – Byte Commander Sep 15 '16 at 17:14

ImportError: No module named 'Crypto.HASH' but pycryto installed

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