Message 290805 - Python tracker

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I like your patch, raising an exception is indeed the right thing to do.  i'll get this patch in.

whether or not the built-in non-openssl based _md5 and _sha1 module exist in "fips" mode is a separate build time issue - lets keep this one just dealing with the always undesirable segfault.