[issue25420] "import random" blocks on entropy collection on Linux with low entropy

STINNER Victor report at bugs.python.org
Tue Apr 26 07:46:53 EDT 2016


STINNER Victor added the comment:

The issue is more general than just "import random", Python reads entropy at startup to initialize a random seed for its randomized hash function: see the issue #26839.

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