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r78297 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-22 03:29:10 +0100 (Mo, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line
#7076: mention SystemRandom class near start of the module docs; reword change description for clarity. Noted by Shawn Ligocki.
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r78308 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-22 16:13:17 +0100 (Mo, 22 Feb 2010) | 2 lines
#6414: clarify description of processor endianness.
Text by Alexey Shamrin; I changed 'DEC Alpha' to the more relevant 'Intel Itanium'.
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recent variant that repairs these flaws.
.. versionchanged:: 2.3
- Substituted MersenneTwister for Wichmann-Hill.
+ MersenneTwister replaced Wichmann-Hill as the default generator.
+
+The :mod:`random` module also provides the :class:`SystemRandom` class which
+uses the system function :func:`os.urandom` to generate random numbers
+from sources provided by the operating system.
Bookkeeping functions: