[Nikolaus Rath] >> Aeh, what the tin says is "return random bytes".
[Larry Hastings] > What the tin says is "urandom", which has local man pages that dictate > exactly how it behaves. On Linux the "urandom" man page says: > > A read from the /dev/urandom device will not block waiting for more > entropy. > If there is not sufficient entropy, a pseudorandom number generator is > used > to create the requested bytes. > > os.urandom() needs to behave like that on Linux, which is how it behaved in > Python 2.4 through 3.4. I agree (with Larry). If the change hadn't already been made, nobody would get anywhere trying to make it now. So best to pretend it was never made to begin with ;-) The tin that _will_ say "return random bytes" in Python will be`secrets.token_bytes()`. That's self-evidently (to me) where the "possibly block forever" implementation belongs. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
