STINNER Victor added the comment: > Second, unless you can guarantee you support blocking / non-blocking behavior > on all platforms, this is a bad move.
Well, there are two options: * Detect when os.urandom() is going to block, and falls back to weaker entropy (Linux: /dev/urandom in non-blocking mode, others: getpid+time?). * Never use os.urandom() to seed random.Random when the randim module is imported: I suggest to discuss this option in the issue #27272 I would prefer to collect enough technical information before taking a decision (ensure that it's not possible to get a portable function to check if /dev/urandom is going to block.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27266> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
