From 5c7e8cd26727fe9c32c286d5d051def4f0c29646 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 03:06:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid using the obsolete rand module; and improve the
 randomness of the boundary chosen by choose_boudary() by using milliseconds
 of the timestamp.

---
 Lib/mimetools.py | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/mimetools.py b/Lib/mimetools.py
index 5489aa090c4..eed24ca0af1 100644
--- a/Lib/mimetools.py
+++ b/Lib/mimetools.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ _prefix = None
 def choose_boundary():
 	global _prefix
 	import time
-	import rand
+	import whrandom
 	if _prefix == None:
 		import socket
 		import os
@@ -122,10 +122,9 @@ def choose_boundary():
 		    pid = `os.getpid()`
 		except:
 		    pid = '1'
-		seed = `rand.rand()`
 		_prefix = hostid + '.' + uid + '.' + pid
-	timestamp = `int(time.time())`
-	seed = `rand.rand()`
+	timestamp = '%.3f' % time.time()
+	seed = `whrandom.randint(0, 32767)`
 	return _prefix + '.' + timestamp + '.' + seed