Kaydet (Commit) 4ad46542 authored tarafından Steven D'Aprano's avatar Steven D'Aprano

Shorten secrets module docstring, add function docstrings.

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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.
See PEP 506 for more information.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0506/
Random numbers
==============
The ``secrets`` module provides the following pseudo-random functions, based
on SystemRandom, which in turn uses the most secure source of randomness your
operating system provides.
choice(sequence)
Choose a random element from a non-empty sequence.
randbelow(n)
Return a random int in the range [0, n).
randbits(k)
Generates an int with k random bits.
SystemRandom
Class for generating random numbers using sources provided by
the operating system. See the ``random`` module for documentation.
Token functions
===============
The ``secrets`` module provides a number of functions for generating secure
tokens, suitable for applications such as password resets, hard-to-guess
URLs, and similar. All the ``token_*`` functions take an optional single
argument specifying the number of bytes of randomness to use. If that is
not given, or is ``None``, a reasonable default is used. That default is
subject to change at any time, including during maintenance releases.
token_bytes(nbytes=None)
Return a random byte-string containing ``nbytes`` number of bytes.
>>> secrets.token_bytes(16) #doctest:+SKIP
b'\\xebr\\x17D*t\\xae\\xd4\\xe3S\\xb6\\xe2\\xebP1\\x8b'
token_hex(nbytes=None)
Return a random text-string, in hexadecimal. The string has ``nbytes``
random bytes, each byte converted to two hex digits.
>>> secrets.token_hex(16) #doctest:+SKIP
'f9bf78b9a18ce6d46a0cd2b0b86df9da'
token_urlsafe(nbytes=None)
Return a random URL-safe text-string, containing ``nbytes`` random
bytes. On average, each byte results in approximately 1.3 characters
in the final result.
>>> secrets.token_urlsafe(16) #doctest:+SKIP
'Drmhze6EPcv0fN_81Bj-nA'
(The examples above assume Python 3. In Python 2, byte-strings will display
using regular quotes ``''`` with no prefix, and text-strings will have a
``u`` prefix.)
Other functions
===============
compare_digest(a, b)
Return True if strings a and b are equal, otherwise False.
Performs the equality comparison in such a way as to reduce the
risk of timing attacks.
See http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/ for a
discussion on how timing attacks against ``==`` can reveal
secrets from your application.
"""
__all__ = ['choice', 'randbelow', 'randbits', 'SystemRandom',
......@@ -100,18 +25,47 @@ randbits = _sysrand.getrandbits
choice = _sysrand.choice
def randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound):
"""Return a random int in the range [0, n)."""
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')
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