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authorVinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>2017-01-27 12:42:45 +0000
committerVinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>2017-01-27 12:42:45 +0000
commit49851a445bdbd7783f031fbb3e6972b55b885316 (patch)
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Fixes #29308: Merged fix from 3.5.
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+"""Generate cryptographically strong pseudo-random numbers suitable for
+managing secrets such as account authentication, tokens, and similar.
+
+See PEP 506 for more information.
+https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0506/
+
+"""
+
+__all__ = ['choice', 'randbelow', 'randbits', 'SystemRandom',
+ 'token_bytes', 'token_hex', 'token_urlsafe',
+ 'compare_digest',
+ ]
+
+
+import base64
+import binascii
+import os
+
+from hmac import compare_digest
+from random import SystemRandom
+
+_sysrand = SystemRandom()
+
+randbits = _sysrand.getrandbits
+choice = _sysrand.choice
+
+def randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound):
+ """Return a random int in the range [0, n)."""
+ if exclusive_upper_bound <= 0:
+ raise ValueError("Upper bound must be positive.")
+ return _sysrand._randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound)
+
+DEFAULT_ENTROPY = 32 # number of bytes to return by default
+
+def token_bytes(nbytes=None):
+ """Return a random byte string containing *nbytes* bytes.
+
+ If *nbytes* is ``None`` or not supplied, a reasonable
+ default is used.
+
+ >>> token_bytes(16) #doctest:+SKIP
+ b'\\xebr\\x17D*t\\xae\\xd4\\xe3S\\xb6\\xe2\\xebP1\\x8b'
+
+ """
+ if nbytes is None:
+ nbytes = DEFAULT_ENTROPY
+ return os.urandom(nbytes)
+
+def token_hex(nbytes=None):
+ """Return a random text string, in hexadecimal.
+
+ The string has *nbytes* random bytes, each byte converted to two
+ hex digits. If *nbytes* is ``None`` or not supplied, a reasonable
+ default is used.
+
+ >>> token_hex(16) #doctest:+SKIP
+ 'f9bf78b9a18ce6d46a0cd2b0b86df9da'
+
+ """
+ return binascii.hexlify(token_bytes(nbytes)).decode('ascii')
+
+def token_urlsafe(nbytes=None):
+ """Return a random URL-safe text string, in Base64 encoding.
+
+ The string has *nbytes* random bytes. If *nbytes* is ``None``
+ or not supplied, a reasonable default is used.
+
+ >>> token_urlsafe(16) #doctest:+SKIP
+ 'Drmhze6EPcv0fN_81Bj-nA'
+
+ """
+ tok = token_bytes(nbytes)
+ return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(tok).rstrip(b'=').decode('ascii')