Donald Stufft added the comment: I think a new function is a bad idea TBH, os.urandom provides 99% of the right interface on Linux, and 100% of the right interface on other OSes and there is a lot of code out there using os.urandom for it's security properties, and a lot of people educating users to use os.urandom for security sensitive tasks.
All of a sudden going, "wait! You actually want Y" is not going to make anything more clear, especially since the difference in behavior only matters in an edge case. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27266> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
