On 29 July 2016 at 02:56, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I moved my os.urandom PEP to the regular GitHub repository so it gets available on python.org: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0524/
Changes since version 2:
* add os.getrandom()
I'm wondering if we should take os.getrandom() out of the PEPs, and just agree that adding it as a platform-dependent optional interface in the OS module is a good idea. The reason I've started thinking that way is that one of the capabilities we've long supported is to let people write platform specific "C'ish" code in Python, that then later gets translated to actual C code, either manually, or automatically via Cython (or one of its predecessors). Adding os.getrandom() would make sense in that context, just as it's the reason we keep "getopt" around as a standard library module. The aspect of Larry's original proposal to add os.getrandom that I objected to was adding it *instead of* fixing os.urandom's default behaviour, but I think we've moved past that point of contention now. The competing PEPs would then just be about where we put the cross-platform blocking behaviour: either doing it implicitly in os.urandom, or letting that sometimes throw BlockingIOError, and offering an explicit cross-platform blocking API in the secrets module. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia