On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 04:43:58 +0100 (CET) raymond.hettinger <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:

Author: raymond.hettinger Date: Tue Nov 9 04:43:58 2010 New Revision: 86351

Log: Simplify code

Modified: python/branches/py3k/Lib/tempfile.py

Modified: python/branches/py3k/Lib/tempfile.py ============================================================================== --- python/branches/py3k/Lib/tempfile.py (original) +++ python/branches/py3k/Lib/tempfile.py Tue Nov 9 04:43:58 2010 @@ -108,30 +108,19 @@

_RandomNameSequence is an iterator."""

- characters = ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" + - "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" + - "0123456789_") + characters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_"

Aren't you reducing entropy here?