Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > It was in the list of security fixes Alex and Donald wanted to reduce > vulnerabilities in 2.x network services, and Guido was OK with backporting > it.
What security issue is there exactly? os.urandom() does a similar thing in 2.7 and 3.x (it reads from /dev/urandom). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21305> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com