[Python-Dev] BDFL ruling request: should we block forever waiting for high-quality random bits?

[Donald Stufft]

> On Jun 10, 2016, at 2:29 PM, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
> 
> If I *were* someone who needed to write a Linux system initialization script using Python 3.5.2, what would the code look like.  I think for this use case, requiring something with a little bit of "code smell" is fine, but I kinda hope it exists at all.


Do you mean if os.urandom blocked and you wanted to call os.urandom from your boot script? Or if os.urandom doesn’t block and you wanted to ensure you got good random numbers on boot?

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Donald Stufft



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