Making PyCall for os.urandom results in "base64 binary data"

[FinlayDaG33k]

Hii there,

I'm trying to get the os.urandom method from Python to work in my Julia script.
However, all I can get from it is a base64 binary data:

salt = os.urandom(floor(Int, salt_length / 2));
println(salt);

base64 binary data: 2pzXfwq2qPAOCg==

I wonder if this is a bug or intended behaviour and how one could fix this as it's nowhere in the documentation.

[FinlayDaG33k]

Found that I can do this using the the Julia Random library instead...
Closing

[stevengj]

It works fine for me, though it is returning a String which is probably not what you want in Julia. If you want a Vector{UInt8} (i.e. a vector of bytes), you can do:

julia> pycall(pyimport("os").urandom, Vector{UInt8}, 10)
10-element Array{UInt8,1}:
 0xeb
 0x4b
 0x12
 0x69
 0xf6
 0x78
 0x56
 0x22
 0x7a
 0x8b