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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>2020-04-17 17:05:35 (GMT)
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bpo-40286: Add randbytes() method to random.Random (GH-19527)
Add random.randbytes() function and random.Random.randbytes() method to generate random bytes. Modify secrets.token_bytes() to use SystemRandom.randbytes() rather than calling directly os.urandom(). Rename also genrand_int32() to genrand_uint32(), since it returns an unsigned 32-bit integer, not a signed integer. The _random module is now built with Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE defined.
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@@ -112,6 +112,13 @@ Bookkeeping functions
:meth:`randrange` to handle arbitrarily large ranges.
+.. function:: randbytes(n)
+
+ Generate *n* random bytes.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.9
+
+
Functions for integers
----------------------