My hypothetical is "Ensure good random bits (on Python 3.5.2 and Linux), and block rather than allow bad bits."
I'm not quite sure I understand all of your question, Donald. On Python 3.4—and by BDFL declaration on 3.5.2—os.urandom() *will not* block, although it might on 3.5.1. On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2016, at 2:29 PM, David Mertz <[email protected]> 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? > > — > Donald Stufft > > > > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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