Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> added the comment: IMHO it's all about managing expectations. As libuuid is using a crypto RNG before it falls back to a less suitable RNG. We should follow this example. I couldn't find any information about the implementation details of Window's UuidCreate().
I agree that we can disagree on my reasoning. However the usage of random.random() and random.randint() in uuid is flawed for a second reason. The default instance random._inst doesn't compensate for fork(). After fork() the two processes share the same random state and thus will create the same uuids. For example tempfile._RandomNameSequence re-creates the RNG when it notices a different PID. ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26190/issue15206.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15206> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
