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python-matplotlib fails in certain functions when run in fips mode:\
- lib/matplotlib/finance.py - check_historical_yahoo - creates file named according to md5 of downloaded url - this could imo be safely used with "usedforsecurity=False", since the file gets completely overwritten
- lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_svg.py - hashing of content for svg clip references - not a security use, should be fixable same as above
- lib/matplotlib/texmanager.py - creating tex file name according to result of hash - the function here is sometimes used for creating names of files that will be read, therefore this may pose some security risk, I would probably leave this as it is
- lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/mathmpl.py - constructs name of png image for conversion of latex file to html - I'm not sure whether this would be safe to leave there

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These issues were brought to our attention late in the cycle so moving to rhel-7.4