[Python-Dev] BDFL ruling request: should we block forever waiting for high-quality random bits? (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 07:35:38 EDT 2016

I understood that Christian Heimes and/or Donald Stufft are interested to work on a PEP.

2016-06-09 13:25 GMT+02:00 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org>:

A problem has surfaced just this week in 3.5.1. Obviously this is a good time to fix it for 3.5.2. But there's a big argument over what is "broken" and what is an appropriate "fix".

IMHO the bug is now fixed in 3.5.2 as I explained at: http://haypo-notes.readthedocs.io/pep_random.html#status-of-python-3-5-2

THE PROBLEM

Issue #26839: http://bugs.python.org/issue26839 (warning, the issue is now astonishingly long, and exhausting to read, and various bits of it are factually wrong)

You may want to read my summary: http://haypo-notes.readthedocs.io/pep_random.html

I'm not interested to reply to Larry's email point per point. IHMO a formal PEP is now required for Python 3.6 (to enhance os.urandom and clarify Python behaviour before urandom is initialized). Python 3.5.2 is fixed, there is no more urgency ;-)

Victor

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