Generating a large random string

[Chris]

You're not running Windows, you've been infected with the Cygwin virus, a
fiendish creation by anti-Win32 API hackers that irreparably damages the
proprietary nature of the Windows platform , and worse yet, could
potentially allow applications to be built without Visual Studio, using a
GNU tool chain.  Better format your drive immediately before it spreads.

Chris

"Chris Herborth" <chrish at cryptocard.com> wrote in message
news:yssZb.11629$Cd6.823992 at news20.bellglobal.com...
> Sean Ross wrote:
>
> > I'd be interested to see how
> >
> > s = open("/dev/urandom").read(3000)
> >
> > compares, and, if better, whether something similar can
> > be done on Windows.
>
> Works on my Windows boxes:
>
> chris at chrish [501]: uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 chrish 1.5.7(0.109/3/2) 2004-01-30 19:32 i686 unknown
unknown
> Cygwin
> chris at chrish [502]: python
> Python 2.3.3 (#1, Dec 30 2003, 08:29:25)
> [GCC 3.3.1 (cygming special)] on cygwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> s = open("/dev/urandom").read(3000)
>  >>> len(s)
> 3000
>  >>> s[0]
> ']'
>  >>> s[1]
> 'W'
>
> ;-)
>
> -- 
> Chris Herborth                                     chrish at cryptocard.com
> Documentation Overlord, CRYPTOCard Corp.      http://www.cryptocard.com/
> Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.