From 55c96e8053689c29ae28a9d2117ae37934eace68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NewUserHa <32261870+NewUserHa@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 06:45:24 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] gh-99305: Speed up secrets.token_hex() ~2x (#99306)

simple code modernization.

Co-authored-by: Pieter Eendebak <pieter.eendebak@gmail.com>
---
 Lib/secrets.py                                                 | 3 +--
 .../next/Library/2022-11-10-11-51-39.gh-issue-99305.6LzQc3.rst | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-10-11-51-39.gh-issue-99305.6LzQc3.rst

diff --git a/Lib/secrets.py b/Lib/secrets.py
index 900381a89f5..566a09b7311 100644
--- a/Lib/secrets.py
+++ b/Lib/secrets.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ __all__ = ['choice', 'randbelow', 'randbits', 'SystemRandom',
 
 
 import base64
-import binascii
 
 from hmac import compare_digest
 from random import SystemRandom
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ def token_hex(nbytes=None):
     'f9bf78b9a18ce6d46a0cd2b0b86df9da'
 
     """
-    return binascii.hexlify(token_bytes(nbytes)).decode('ascii')
+    return token_bytes(nbytes).hex()
 
 def token_urlsafe(nbytes=None):
     """Return a random URL-safe text string, in Base64 encoding.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-10-11-51-39.gh-issue-99305.6LzQc3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-10-11-51-39.gh-issue-99305.6LzQc3.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..32e18e5d4a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-11-10-11-51-39.gh-issue-99305.6LzQc3.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Improve performance of :func:`secrets.token_hex`.