[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Inada Naoki added the comment: I'm +0 too. Since there are no +1 from core dev for a long time, I close this issue for now. -- resolution: -> wont fix stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: -0 on making anything other than the doc change. For the most part, we avoid sweeping through the standard library to substitute-in new features and instead have a preference for code stability rather than code churn. FWIW, the main rationale for introduc

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Wolfgang Maier added the comment: Actually, in Python2.7 random.choice is implemented with the same susceptibility to the rounding bug as Python3's choices, still nobody ever reported a tempfile IndexError problem (I guess). -- ___ Python tracker

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Wolfgang Maier added the comment: sorry, should have been issue 24567, of course. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mai

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Wolfgang Maier added the comment: @serhiy as I understand issue 33228, the double rounding problem potentially causing an IndexError can only affect choices() if the len of the sequence to choose from is greater than 2049, but the string in question here is only 37 characters long. Alternativ

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

INADA Naoki added the comment: @wolma Would you split your PR? One for fix docstring and one for using Random.choices. Since former is document bug, I want to backport it. (while _RandomNameSequence is private) -- nosy: +inada.naoki ___ Python tr

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: See issue24567. It affects Random.choices(), but not Random.choice() because the latter uses getrandbits(). -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker _

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

Change by Wolfgang Maier : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +6093 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue33228] Use Random.choices in tempfile

New submission from Wolfgang Maier : A rather trivial change: tempfile._RandomNameSequence could make use of random.Random.choices introduced in 3.6. IMO, the suggested change would give clearer and also faster code. It also updates the docstring of the class, which currently talks about a six-ch