[Python-checkins] peps: Withdraw PEP 504 in favour of 506

[nick.coghlan]

https://hg.python.org/peps/rev/e3dabf1d9fc1
changeset:   6075:e3dabf1d9fc1
user:        Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
date:        Sun Sep 20 21:53:54 2015 +1000
summary:
  Withdraw PEP 504 in favour of 506

files:
  pep-0504.txt |  17 ++++++++++++++++-
  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0504.txt b/pep-0504.txt
--- a/pep-0504.txt
+++ b/pep-0504.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Version: $Revision$
 Last-Modified: $Date$
 Author: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
-Status: Draft
+Status: Withdrawn
 Type: Standards Track
 Content-Type: text/x-rst
 Created: 15-Sep-2015
@@ -38,6 +38,21 @@
 To minimise the impact on existing code, module level APIs that require
 determinism will implicitly switch to the deterministic PRNG.
 
+PEP Withdrawal
+==============
+
+During discussion of this PEP, Steven D'Aprano proposed the simpler alternative
+of offering a standardised ``secrets`` module that provides "one obvious way"
+to handle security sensitive tasks like generating default passwords and other
+tokens.
+
+Steven's proposal has the desired effect of aligning the easy way to generate
+such tokens and the right way to generate them, without introducing any
+compatibility risks for the existing ``random`` module API, so this PEP has
+been deferred in favour of further work on refining Steven's proposal as
+PEP 506.
+
+
 Proposal
 ========
 

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