Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > So as of right now afaik none of the sources of cryptographically > secure random in the python stdlib offer a way to open a persistent > FD. The primary question on my mind is if os.urandom can't be modified > to maintain a persistent FD can Python offer a urandom class that > *will* maintain a persistent FD?
Well, if we want to offer such a facility, let's bundle it in os.urandom(). It would be suboptimal to have two slightly different implementations of the same thing. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18756> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com