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Python and crypto-strength random numbers by default

Python and crypto-strength random numbers by default

Posted Sep 16, 2015 20:56 UTC (Wed) by fredrik (subscriber, #232)
Parent article: Python and crypto-strength random numbers by default

I have no opinion on the core topic but want to object to the argument that people don't read the docs.

As a python novice, my impression is that I spend more time reading documentation for python modules than for other languages. Perhaps because I find the documentation for a lot of modules a pleasure to read. They give a swift introduction, offer relevant examples, mention relevant implementation details, and sometimes suggest other modules that perhaps are better suited to some more tangential use case.

So, perhaps an alternative proposal is to ensure that the documentation for random.random() is very entertaining, so entertaining that it competes with 'from __future__ import braces' et.al.


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