Is this secure?

[Robert Kern]

On 2010-02-24 12:35 PM, mk wrote:

> While with this:
>
> def gen_rand_word(n):
> with open('/dev/urandom') as f:
> return ''.join([chr(ord('a') + ord(x) % 26) for x in f.read(n) if ord(x)
> < 235])
>
> a 3852
...

> 1. I'm systematically getting 'a' outlier: have no idea why for now.
>
> 2. This is somewhat better (except 'a') but still not uniform.

I will repeat my advice to just use random.SystemRandom.choice() instead of 
trying to interpret the bytes from /dev/urandom directly.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco