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| author | Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> | 2020-04-17 17:05:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-04-17 17:05:35 (GMT) |
| commit | 9f5fe7910f4a1bf5a425837d4915e332b945eb7b (patch) | |
| tree | 5f652699332e33a81cf6baa5ff5b6fecadea1903 /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 22386bb4ef740ee92d34c87b8cb90d681423a853 (diff) | |
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bpo-40286: Add randbytes() method to random.Random (GH-19527)
Add random.randbytes() function and random.Random.randbytes()
method to generate random bytes.
Modify secrets.token_bytes() to use SystemRandom.randbytes()
rather than calling directly os.urandom().
Rename also genrand_int32() to genrand_uint32(), since it returns an
unsigned 32-bit integer, not a signed integer.
The _random module is now built with Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE defined.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst index aae8e5b..2b36b0f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst @@ -353,6 +353,12 @@ The documentation string is now shown not only for class, function, method etc, but for any object that has its own ``__doc__`` attribute. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`40257`.) +random +------ + +Add a new :attr:`random.Random.randbytes` method: generate random bytes. +(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`40286`.) + signal ------ |