Message 195375 - Python tracker

Message195375

Author	pitrou
Recipients	alex, christian.heimes, dstufft, hynek, jcea, neologix, pitrou, tarek, vstinner
Date	2013-08-16.17:37:37
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> So as of right now afaik none of the sources of cryptographically > secure random in the python stdlib offer a way to open a persistent > FD. The primary question on my mind is if os.urandom can't be modified > to maintain a persistent FD can Python offer a urandom class that > will maintain a persistent FD? Well, if we want to offer such a facility, let's bundle it in os.urandom(). It would be suboptimal to have two slightly different implementations of the same thing.

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> So as of right now afaik none of the sources of cryptographically
> secure random in the python stdlib offer a way to open a persistent
> FD. The primary question on my mind is if os.urandom can't be modified
> to maintain a persistent FD can Python offer a urandom class that
> *will* maintain a persistent FD?

Well, if we want to offer such a facility, let's bundle it in
os.urandom(). It would be suboptimal to have two slightly different
implementations of the same thing.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2013-08-16 17:37:38	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, jcea, vstinner, christian.heimes, tarek, alex, neologix, hynek, dstufft
2013-08-16 17:37:38	pitrou	link	issue18756 messages
2013-08-16 17:37:37	pitrou	create