Python 3.3 can't import Crypt

Question

When I type in import Crypt on the command line it says:

>>>import crypt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python33\lib\crypt.py", line 3, in <module>
    import _crypt
ImportError: No module named '_crypt'

Answer 1

The crypt module is an interface to the Unix crypt library which is used for encrypting Unix passwords. It is documented as not being available on Windows. It is not a general purpose cryptography library.

Answer 2

If all you're looking for is an implementation of crypt(3), I've knocked up a pure-Python implementation here, ported from this public domain C implementation. It's pretty damn slow (about 2800 times slower than Python's built-in crypt on my machine, which is already about half the speed of OpenSSL's DES_crypt), but if you're just calculating the occasional hash, that shouldn't really be a problem.

Are you writing an imageboard, by any chance?