[issue25003] os.urandom() should call getrandom(2) not getentropy(2)

Guido van Rossum report at bugs.python.org
Tue Sep 8 16:39:21 CEST 2015


Guido van Rossum added the comment:

Also, Theo believes that our Mersenne Twister is outdated and os.urandom() is the only reasonable alternative. So we might as well keep it fast.

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