A real fix for the problem where: import random would result in every call to random() returning the same value in the web interface. While cgi/client.py:Client::__init.py__ was calling random.seed(), on most systems random was SystemRandom and not the default random. As a result the random as you would get from: import random was never being seeded. I added a function to access and seed the random bound instance of random.Random that is called during init. This fixes all three places where I saw the broken randomness. It should also fix: http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue644 I also removed the prior code that would bail if systemRandom was not available.