Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: On 08.06.2016 22:49, Larry Hastings wrote: > > Third, because the os module is in general a thin wrapper over what the OS > provides, I disapprove of "cryptorandom()" and "pseudorandom()" going into > the os module. There are no functions with these names on any OS of which > I'm aware. This is why I proposed "os.getrandom(n, block=True)". From its > signature, the function it calls on your OS will be obvious, and its > semantics on your OS will be documented by your OS. > > Thus I am completely unwilling to add os.cryptorandom() and os.pseudorandom() > in 3.5.2.
That was a sketch for 3.6 to resolve the ambiguity between the different use cases. You're right, it's better to move such things to the random module. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
