[Python-Dev] r86351 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/tempfile.py

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> -    characters = ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" +
>> -                  "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" +
>> -                  "0123456789_")
>> +    characters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_"
>
> Aren't you reducing entropy here?

Perhaps in some cases, but it also makes the behaviour consistent
across all platforms.

Cheers,
Nick.

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