The Written Word added the comment: Actually, this regression appeared after the Hash Randomization patches prior to 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.4 and 3.2.3.
Also, it not only breaks `from os import urandom`, but also prevents installation of many third-party packages that use setuptools or distribute, where the interpreter bails out with: "OSError: No such file or directory /dev/urandom" inside setup.py on all Tru64 machines, and HPUX 11.00 and 11.11 (at least). As best I can tell it's failing either because dev_urandom_noraise aborts the interpreter if /dev/urandom is missing, or later an uncaught PyExc_OSError in dev_urandom_python triggers for the same reason. In either case there's no NotImplemented exception raised for the fallback code be used :( ---------- nosy: +bugs-pyt...@vendor.thewrittenword.com versions: +Python 2.6, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15340> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
