On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:40:13 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:36:02 +0100, mk wrote: > >> The question is: is this secure? That is, can the string generated this >> way be considered truly random? > > Putting aside the philosophical question of what "truly random" means, I > presume you mean that the letters are uniformly distributed. The answer > to that is, they don't like uniformly distributed.
Er, they don't *look* uniformly distributed. (Of course, being random, perhaps they are and I just got unlucky.) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list