[Security-sig] RFC: PEP: Make os.urandom() blocking on Linux

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 22, 2016, at 06:31 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>    try:
>        my_random = os.getrandom
>    except AttributeError:
>        my_random = os.urandom

Once Python 3.6 is widely available, and/or secrets is backported and
available on PyPI, why would you ever do that rather than just get the best
source of randomness out of the secrets module?

Cheers,
-Barry
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