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Author dstufft
Recipients christian.heimes, dstufft, hynek, jcea, neologix, pitrou, tarek, vstinner
Date 2013-08-16.17:13:08
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Just to be explicit, ``open("/dev/urandom")`` only works on POSIX platforms while ``os.usrandom`` should work on any supported platform that has an OS level source of randomness. So advocating *for* simply using ``open()`` is probably a bad idea unless the target OS is only POSIX.
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2013-08-16 17:13:08dstufftsetrecipients: + dstufft, jcea, pitrou, vstinner, christian.heimes, tarek, neologix, hynek
2013-08-16 17:13:08dstufftsetmessageid: <1376673188.24.0.574950524663.issue18756@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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