On 21Jul2008 21:17, Victor Stinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Well, the real problem is os.urandom(4.2) which goes to an unlimited loop: | while len(bytes) < n: | bytes += read(_urandomfd, n - len(bytes)) | because read(0.2) works as read(0) :-/
Leaving aside the 0.2 => 0 converstion, shouldn't read() raise an exception if asked for < 1 bytes? Or is there a legitimate use for read(0) with which I was not previously aware? -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com