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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2014-08-28 16:30:00 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2014-08-28 16:30:00 (GMT)
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PEP 466: backport persistent urandom fd (closes #21305)
Patch from Alex Gaynor.
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Library
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+- Issue #21305: os.urandom now caches a fd to /dev/urandom. This is a PEP 466
+ backport from Python 3.
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- Issue #21307: As part of PEP 466, backport hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed and
hashlib.algorithms_available.