Larry Hastings added the comment: Speaking as the 3.5 RM, I suppose I have to have an opinion. I don't think "Python now uses a better source of randomness to seed the random module at startup" is a major feature. It's a nice-to-have, not a must-have. And people who care about good randomness (e.g. people doing crypto with the random module) shouldn't be relying on the freebie initialization they get just by importing.
So I think changing the default is fine, especially if the new default is "seed from the entropy pool, but if it's empty failover to the not-as-good source of random bits". If you think that's a bad move, please add your comments here--I'm willing to have my mind changed about this. I'll remind you: the schedule says I tag 3.5.2 RC 1 this coming Saturday (almost exactly six days from now). Naturally I'd prefer to make the release on time. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26839> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
