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Author ajaksu2
Recipients ajaksu2
Date 2008-08-27.23:30:11
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Message-id <1219879812.7.0.142620771907.issue3708@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Calling os.urandom(1 + float(x)) ends in a infinite loop due to a naive
condition check:

while len(bytes) < n:
    bytes += read(_urandomfd, n - len(bytes))

Trivial patch attached.
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