[issue13396] new method random.getrandbytes()

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> added the comment:

> How would this work for other random number generators that don't
> supply genrand_int32()?

genrand_int32 is an internal function, only available in C for the Mersenne Twister generator.
random.SystemRandom() should provide getrandbytes as well, it would just call os.urandom(); I don't know other generators.

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