STINNER Victor added the comment: > I dislike the “block” term for a different reason: it suggests raising EAGAIN > (= BlockingIOError). But the proposal here is actually to generate data with > low entropy.
Since os.urandom() is part of the os module, yes, I'm suggesting to raise BlockingIOError. The caller would be responsible to handle this error and make a choice. For example, random.py can reuse its fallback on time.time(). ---------- _______________________________________ 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
