[Python-Dev] BDFL ruling request: should we block forever waiting for high-quality random bits? (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Jun 9 12:16:54 EDT 2016
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To expand on my idea of printing a warning, in 3.6 we could add a new Warning exception for this purpose, so you'd have command-line control over the behavior of os.urandom() by specifying -WXXX on your Python command line. For 3.5.2 that's too fancy though -- we can't add a new exception.
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