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Author	ideasman42
Recipients	Steven.Barker, ideasman42, mark.dickinson, paul.moore, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date	2016-05-22.01:40:46
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Message-id	<1463881246.71.0.0523547464645.issue27072@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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@rhettinger, agree that very large ints in this case aren't going to give very usable results. On the other hand, this limit isn't imposed elsewhere (you can power-of operator to create bigger numbers). Nevertheless this isn't going to give good/usable performance. ---- Might having a method added to `randome.Random` that returns random bits (as os.urandom does), be something Python project would consider accepting?

@rhettinger, agree that very large ints in this case aren't going to give very usable results.

On the other hand, this limit isn't imposed elsewhere (you can power-of operator to create bigger numbers).

Nevertheless this isn't going to give good/usable performance.

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Might having a method added to `randome.Random` that returns random bits (as os.urandom does), be something Python project would consider accepting?

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