diff roundup/cgi/templating.py @ 5356:91954be46a66

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.
author John Rouillard <rouilj@ieee.org>
date Sun, 08 Jul 2018 11:34:42 -0400
parents 66a17c80e035
children 35ea9b1efc14
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--- a/roundup/cgi/templating.py	Sat Jul 07 22:39:16 2018 -0400
+++ b/roundup/cgi/templating.py	Sun Jul 08 11:34:42 2018 -0400
@@ -36,10 +36,7 @@
     from random import SystemRandom
     random=SystemRandom()
 except ImportError:
-    raise
-    from random import Random
-    random=Random()
-
+    from random import random
 try:
     import cPickle as pickle
 except ImportError:

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