Commit 01bd3c12 authored by Nick Coghlan's avatar Nick Coghlan

Close #22300 by tweaking 2.7.9 What's New announcements

parent 2d142707
......@@ -2570,10 +2570,18 @@ with the first of those changes appearing in the Python 2.7.7 release.
certificate store, the :class:`~ssl.SSLContext` class, and other
features. (Contributed by Alex Gaynor and David Reid; :issue:`21308`.)
Refer to the "Version added: 2.7.9" notes in the module documentation for
specific details.
* :func:`os.urandom` was changed to cache a file descriptor to ``/dev/urandom``
instead of reopening ``/dev/urandom`` on every call. (Contributed by Alex
Gaynor; :issue:`21305`.)
* :data:`hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed` and
:data:`hashlib.algorithms_available` were backported from Python 3 to make
it easier for Python 2 applications to select the strongest available hash
algorithm. (Contributed by Alex Gaynor in :issue:`21307`)
PEP 477: Backport ensurepip (PEP 453) to Python 2.7
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