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Why did you choose random’s SystemRandom rather than secrets?

• kragen 1y ago
  What? Oh, you mean PEP 506. I wrote this program in 02012, and PEP 506 wasn't written until 02015, didn't ship in a released Python until 3.6 in 02016, and even then was only available in Python 3, which I didn't use because it basically didn't work at the time. PEP 506 is just 22 lines of code wrapping SystemRandom. There's no advantage over just using SystemRandom directly.
  • _zoltan_ 1y ago
    what is 02012 and why write it so strange?
    • namibj 1y ago
      They want to feel like they matter in over 10k years from now, where a 4-digit year would start to wrap.
      • zahlman 1y ago
        In fact that will be not even 8k years from now.
        • sigwinch 1y ago
          I’ll be very embarrassed when I’m still writing 9999 on my checks.
    • ahoka 1y ago
      Obviously it's octal and the person is a time traveler from the 11th century.
    • will4274 1y ago
      It's the long now foundation thing. The long now foundation encourages writing years with five digits to encourage readers to think about long term planning, to plan for a future of humanity that is measured in more than thousands of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
    • dredmorbius 1y ago
      <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45505856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45505856> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43463920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43463920> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39175614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39175614>