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1"""Generate cryptographically strong pseudo-random numbers suitable for
2managing secrets such as account authentication, tokens, and similar.
3
4See PEP 506 for more information.
5https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0506/
6
7"""
8
9__all__ = ['choice', 'randbelow', 'randbits', 'SystemRandom',
10           'token_bytes', 'token_hex', 'token_urlsafe',
11           'compare_digest',
12           ]
13
14
15import base64
16import binascii
17import os
18
19from hmac import compare_digest
20from random import SystemRandom
21
22_sysrand = SystemRandom()
23
24randbits = _sysrand.getrandbits
25choice = _sysrand.choice
26
27def randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound):
28    """Return a random int in the range [0, n)."""
29    if exclusive_upper_bound <= 0:
30        raise ValueError("Upper bound must be positive.")
31    return _sysrand._randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound)
32
33DEFAULT_ENTROPY = 32  # number of bytes to return by default
34
35def token_bytes(nbytes=None):
36    """Return a random byte string containing *nbytes* bytes.
37
38    If *nbytes* is ``None`` or not supplied, a reasonable
39    default is used.
40
41    >>> token_bytes(16)  #doctest:+SKIP
42    b'\\xebr\\x17D*t\\xae\\xd4\\xe3S\\xb6\\xe2\\xebP1\\x8b'
43
44    """
45    if nbytes is None:
46        nbytes = DEFAULT_ENTROPY
47    return os.urandom(nbytes)
48
49def token_hex(nbytes=None):
50    """Return a random text string, in hexadecimal.
51
52    The string has *nbytes* random bytes, each byte converted to two
53    hex digits.  If *nbytes* is ``None`` or not supplied, a reasonable
54    default is used.
55
56    >>> token_hex(16)  #doctest:+SKIP
57    'f9bf78b9a18ce6d46a0cd2b0b86df9da'
58
59    """
60    return binascii.hexlify(token_bytes(nbytes)).decode('ascii')
61
62def token_urlsafe(nbytes=None):
63    """Return a random URL-safe text string, in Base64 encoding.
64
65    The string has *nbytes* random bytes.  If *nbytes* is ``None``
66    or not supplied, a reasonable default is used.
67
68    >>> token_urlsafe(16)  #doctest:+SKIP
69    'Drmhze6EPcv0fN_81Bj-nA'
70
71    """
72    tok = token_bytes(nbytes)
73    return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(tok).rstrip(b'=').decode('ascii')
74