Martin Panter added the comment: If the seed is to be based on time.time(), why not use something based on hash(time.time()) to avoid the 1/256 s resolution?
If there is a practical way to get pseudo-random data from the platform, it would be better to use that, rather than cooking up our own entropy from time.time(), PID, etc. But I guess that depends on the future of os.urandom() and friends. In the meantime, limiting to os.urandom(256) seems reasonable, though I’m not a random number or cryptography expert. ---------- nosy: +martin.panter _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27272> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
