On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:21:30 +0100 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > Have you read the following sentence: > > > > “Since some platforms may not have /dev/urandom, we need a PRNG in the > > core, too. I therefore propose to move the Mersenne twister from > > randommodule.c into the core, too.” > > I disagree. We don't need a PRNG on platforms without /dev/urandom or > any other native RNG.
Well what if /dev/urandom is unavailable because the program is run e.g. in a chroot? (or is /dev/urandom still available in a chroot?) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
