Is the following a known bug? [temp]$ python -U Python 2.4.4 (#1, Oct 23 2006, 13:58:18) [GCC 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import random Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/random.py", line 834, in ? _inst = Random() File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/random.py", line 94, in __init__ self.seed(x) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/random.py", line 108, in seed a = long(_hexlify(_urandom(16)), 16) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 723, in urandom bytes += read(_urandomfd, n - len(bytes)) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x97 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
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