Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment:

On Mar 29, 2012, at 06:25 PM, Carl Meyer wrote:

>
>Carl Meyer <c...@dirtcircle.com> added the comment:
>
>Alternatively, the conditional definition of urandom in os.py (removed in
>http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a0f43f4481e0#l7.1) could be reintroduced,
>allowing the new stdlib to be used with older interpreters. (Thanks to Dave
>Malcolm for pointing this out.) This seems like perhaps a reasonable
>concession to backwards compatibility for a bugfix release.

Seems reasonable to me too.  I support making this change in 2.6.8.  I won't
personally have time to do that for the next week or so, so if someone else is
applying this to the other stable versions, I hereby give permission to apply
this to the 2.6 branch.

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