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Author	pitrou
Recipients	mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2020-04-14.21:04:50
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I agree I don't need it per se. However, I suspect that for non-exports it would be easier than `getrandbits(nbytes * 8).to_bytes(nbytes, 'endian')`. As for `secrets.token_bytes()`, it's not really adequate for regular pseudo-random data generation when you want to use a fixed seed. And I'm not sure what its performance characteristics are when you pass a large size.

I agree I don't *need* it per se.  However, I suspect that for non-exports it would be easier than
`getrandbits(nbytes * 8).to_bytes(nbytes, 'endian')`.

As for `secrets.token_bytes()`, it's not really adequate for regular pseudo-random data generation when you want to use a fixed seed.  And I'm not sure what its performance characteristics are when you pass a large size.

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