From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 03:06:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Avoid using the obsolete rand module; and improve the randomness
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.1~61
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5c7e8cd26727fe9c32c286d5d051def4f0c29646;p=python

Avoid using the obsolete rand module; and improve the randomness
of the boundary chosen by choose_boudary() by using milliseconds
of the timestamp.
---

diff --git a/Lib/mimetools.py b/Lib/mimetools.py
index 5489aa090c..eed24ca0af 100644
--- a/Lib/mimetools.py
+++ b/Lib/mimetools.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ _prefix = None
 def choose_boundary():
 	global _prefix
 	import time
-	import rand
+	import whrandom
 	if _prefix == None:
 		import socket
 		import os
@@ -122,10 +122,9 @@ def choose_boundary():
 		    pid = `os.getpid()`
 		except:
 		    pid = '1'
-		seed = `rand.rand()`
 		_prefix = hostid + '.' + uid + '.' + pid
-	timestamp = `int(time.time())`
-	seed = `rand.rand()`
+	timestamp = '%.3f' % time.time()
+	seed = `whrandom.randint(0, 32767)`
 	return _prefix + '.' + timestamp + '.' + seed