Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
The wording looks reasonable but it doesn't seem to add much that is not already said: ''' class SystemRandom( [seed]) Class that uses the os.urandom() function for generating random numbers from sources provided by the operating system. Not available on all systems. Does not rely on software state and sequences are not reproducible. Accordingly, the seed() and jumpahead() methods have no effect and are ignored. The getstate() and setstate() methods raise NotImplementedError if called. ''' I hesitate to include anything about cryptographic strength because that isn't really guaranteed on any system. At best, there are a fixed number of bytes of machine generated entropy. At worst, it is deterministic (computed from time, etc) or it is not available at all. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7076> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
