[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (merge 3.3 -> default): Merge issue #15936: Add link from os.urandom to random.SystemRandom

[Christian Heimes]

Am 16.10.2012 12:43, schrieb Larry Hastings:
> On 10/16/2012 11:23 AM, Hynek Schlawack wrote:
>> Am 16.10.2012 um 12:15 schrieb andrew.svetlov <python-checkins at python.org>:
>>
>>> +   For easy to use interface to system randomness please see
>>> +   :class:`random.SystemRandom`.
>> Is it just my non-native speaker ears, or should there be an “an” before “easy”?
> 
> There should.  And "for system randomness" is hard to follow.  I would
> have written it as
> 
>     For an easy-to-use interface to the random number generator provided
>     by your platform, please see :class:`random.SystemRandom`.

I don't like the phrase "easy-to-use" at all. IMO it can't get any
easier than "give my X random bytes". random.SystemRandom is simply a
high level interface that is mostly compatible with the random module.