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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2014-12-21 00:16:38 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2014-12-21 00:16:38 (GMT)
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Issue #22585: On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls getentropy(),
instead of reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random bytes.
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@@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Issue #22585: On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls getentropy(),
+ instead of reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random bytes.
+
- Issue #19104: pprint now produces evaluable output for wrapped strings.
- Issue #23071: Added missing names to codecs.__all__. Patch by Martin Panter.