I am running a cherrypy 3.2.0 server with Python 2.5.1, which gives the following error every few days on any instruction from UI until it is killed and re-started:-

```
[29/Mar/2012:06:37:57] HTTP Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 636, in respond
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 97, in run
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 57, in __call__
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/lib/sessions.py", line 757, in init
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/lib/sessions.py", line 162, in __init__
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/lib/sessions.py", line 190, in _regenerate
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/lib/sessions.py", line 204, in generate_id
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CherryPy-3.2.0-py2.5.egg/cherrypy/_cpcompat.py", line 264, in random20
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 733, in urandom
NotImplementedError: /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

```

`_cpcompat.py` has following piece of code which suggests that there is a fallback on `random.random` in case cherrypy is not able to read `/dev/urandom`, but doesn't seem to be falling back on it.

```
try:
    os.urandom(20)
    import binascii
    def random20():
        return binascii.hexlify(os.urandom(20)).decode('ascii')

except (AttributeError, NotImplementedError):
    import random
    # os.urandom not available until Python 2.4. Fall back to random.random.
    def random20(): 
        return sha('%s' % random.random()).hexdigest()

```

Following is the code snippet from `os.py`, relevant in the context:-

`if not _exists("urandom"):`

```
    def urandom(n):
        """urandom(n) -> str

        Return a string of n random bytes suitable for cryptographic use.

        """
        try:
            _urandomfd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY)
        except (OSError, IOError):
            raise NotImplementedError("/dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found")
        bytes = ""
        while len(bytes) < n:
            bytes += read(_urandomfd, n - len(bytes))
        close(_urandomfd)
        return bytes

```

At the same time when cherrypy is not able to read `/dev/urandom`, the following code snippet is working fine :-

`python -c "import os;fd = open('/dev/urandom', 'r');print fd.read(5);fd.close()"`

I have two questions:-

1. Why is cherrypy throwing not implemented error when I am able to read random bits from /dev/urandom
2. Why is `_cpcompact.py` not executing the except part when `os.py` is raising `NotImplementedError`.