[Python-ideas] Pre-PEP Adding A Secrets Module To The Standard Library

[Tim Peters]

[Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>]
> I too feel a quiet unease about password(), although I don't have
> anything concrete to pin it on. I'm happy to be guided by people with
> more experience in this realm.
>
> What if we called it simple_password() and made it clear that it wasn't
> intended as an all-singing, all-dancing password generator?

Just drop it.  Nobody I recall has said anything in favor of it ;-)

It would be easy to give it as an example in the docs instead,
building directly on choice().  That would steer people who need
fancier stuff in the right direction.