[issue21305] PEP 466: update os.urandom

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> It was in the list of security fixes Alex and Donald wanted to reduce
> vulnerabilities in 2.x network services, and Guido was OK with backporting
> it.

What security issue is there exactly? os.urandom() does a similar thing
in 2.7 and 3.x (it reads from  /dev/urandom).

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