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Author vstinner
Recipients christian.heimes, dstufft, vstinner
Date 2016-06-08.22:16:56
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Donald Stufft proposed the patch no-urandom-by-default.diff in the issue #26839 which replaces os.urandom() with int(time.time()*256) in random.Random constructor.

I dislike this change because it becomes more likely that two Python processes produce the same random number sequence:
https://bugs.python.org/issue26839#msg267819
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2016-06-08 22:16:57vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, christian.heimes, dstufft
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