Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > The problem is that we need an API that will accommodate other random > number generators and not be specific to the MersenneTwister. Right > now, the starting point for everything in the random module is an > underlying generator supplying a random() method returning a float and > an optional getrandombits() method which returns an int (possibly a > long int).
Well, you can provide a default getrandombytes() which calls into getrandombits(), and specialize it in the case genrand_int32() exists. > The latter is easily convertible to bytes with to_bytes() which uses > a fast O(n) algorithm. Well, O(n) doesn't necessarily equate fast. Can Amaury post benchmark numbers of getrandbits().to_bytes() vs getrandbytes()? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13396> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com