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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://peps.python.org/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
16
17from hmac import compare_digest
18from random import SystemRandom
19
20_sysrand = SystemRandom()
21
22randbits = _sysrand.getrandbits
23choice = _sysrand.choice
24
25def randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound):
26    """Return a random int in the range [0, n)."""
27    if exclusive_upper_bound <= 0:
28        raise ValueError("Upper bound must be positive.")
29    return _sysrand._randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound)
30
31DEFAULT_ENTROPY = 32  # number of bytes to return by default
32
33def token_bytes(nbytes=None):
34    """Return a random byte string containing *nbytes* bytes.
35
36    If *nbytes* is ``None`` or not supplied, a reasonable
37    default is used.
38
39    >>> token_bytes(16)  #doctest:+SKIP
40    b'\\xebr\\x17D*t\\xae\\xd4\\xe3S\\xb6\\xe2\\xebP1\\x8b'
41
42    """
43    if nbytes is None:
44        nbytes = DEFAULT_ENTROPY
45    return _sysrand.randbytes(nbytes)
46
47def token_hex(nbytes=None):
48    """Return a random text string, in hexadecimal.
49
50    The string has *nbytes* random bytes, each byte converted to two
51    hex digits.  If *nbytes* is ``None`` or not supplied, a reasonable
52    default is used.
53
54    >>> token_hex(16)  #doctest:+SKIP
55    'f9bf78b9a18ce6d46a0cd2b0b86df9da'
56
57    """
58    return token_bytes(nbytes).hex()
59
60def token_urlsafe(nbytes=None):
61    """Return a random URL-safe text string, in Base64 encoding.
62
63    The string has *nbytes* random bytes.  If *nbytes* is ``None``
64    or not supplied, a reasonable default is used.
65
66    >>> token_urlsafe(16)  #doctest:+SKIP
67    'Drmhze6EPcv0fN_81Bj-nA'
68
69    """
70    tok = token_bytes(nbytes)
71    return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(tok).rstrip(b'=').decode('ascii')
72