[New-bugs-announce] [issue23115] Backport #22585 -- getentropy for urandom to Python 2.7

[Alex Gaynor]

New submission from Alex Gaynor:

This makes the urandom codebase easier to maintain by allowing porting patches between 2.7 and 3.x easier; it also improves support for the OpenBSD platform.

Support for porting patches is not just a theoretical concern, it's likely that Linux's getrandom() will be supported at some point; like getentropy() it's useful because it's less error prone, and works in chroots and other environments that don't explicitly set up the /dev/urandom device.

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components: Library (Lib)
keywords: needs review, patch
messages: 233105
nosy: alex, benjamin.peterson, dstufft
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Backport #22585 -- getentropy for urandom to Python 2.7
versions: Python 2.7

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