Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I agree with Mark here. This isn't specific to random.random() and it's already covered elsewhere in the documentation. Furthermore, I don't know why you're using str() on random.random(). There are better ways to get random strings, such as random.getrandbits() or os.urandom(). Recommend closing. ---------- nosy: +pitrou resolution: -> invalid status: open -> pending _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16609> _______________________________________