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Ixia

Ixia is a cryptographically secure Python RNG library. It mainly merges secrets' security with random's versatility, but also rolls some of its own functions, such as ixia.passphrase(), ixia.shuffled() or ixia.universe_rand(). All random values are generated using urandom (or BCryptGenRandom on Windows).

Installation

Ixia is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip, or any other Python package manager: 

pip install ixia
(Some systems may require you to use pip3, python -m pip, or py -m pip instead.)

Warning

While supporting Python 3.9+, Ixia is based on the Python 3.13 implementation of the random module. The following changes have been made to the module since Python 3.9:

  • gauss, expovariate and normalvariate have default parameter values
  • binomialvariate was added

Additionally, Ixia executes 3.9+ deprecations, thus:

  • ixia.rand_range doesn't convert non-integer types to equivalent integers
  • ixia.sample doesn't support set as a sequence type
  • ixia.shuffle doesn't support the random parameter

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

Please open an issue before submitting a pull request (doesn't apply to minor changes like typos).

To get started:

  1. Clone your fork of the project.
  2. Install the project with uv: 
    uv sync
  3. After you're done, use the following just recipes to check your changes (or run the commands manually): 
    just check     # pytest, mypy, ruff
just coverage  # pytest (with coverage), interrogate (docstring coverage)

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