[Python-Dev] BDFL ruling request: should we block forever waiting for high-quality random bits?

[Robert Collins]

On 16 Jun 2016 6:55 PM, "Larry Hastings" <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
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> Why do you call it only "semi-fixed"?  As far as I understand it, the
semantics of os.urandom() in 3.5.2rc1 are indistinguishable from reading
from /dev/urandom directly, except it may not need to use a file handle.

Which is a contract change. Someone testing in E.g. a chroot could have a
different device on /dev/urandom, and now they will need to intercept
syscalls for the same effect. Personally I think this is fine, but assuming
i see Barry's point correctly, it is indeed but the same as it was.

-rob
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