[Guido]
> ...
> An alternative would be to keep the secrets module linked to SystemRandom,
> and improve the latter. Its link with os.random() is AFAIK undocumented. Its
> API is clumsy but for code that needs some form of secret-ish bytes and
> requires platform and Python version independence it might be better than
> anything else. Then the secrets module is just what we recommend new users
> on Python 3.6.
There's an issue currently open about this:
http://bugs.python.org/issue27288
The docs for SystemRandom are very brief, so people may have actually
noticed ;-) the first sentence:
Class that uses the os.urandom() function for generating random numbers ...
IOW, "uses os.urandom()" has been one of its only advertised qualities.
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