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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2013-10-06 16:43:19 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2013-10-06 16:43:19 (GMT)
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Closes #15213: update comment for _PyOS_URandom
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@@ -3306,8 +3306,9 @@ Miscellaneous Functions
This function returns random bytes from an OS-specific randomness source. The
returned data should be unpredictable enough for cryptographic applications,
though its exact quality depends on the OS implementation. On a Unix-like
- system this will query /dev/urandom, and on Windows it will use CryptGenRandom.
- If a randomness source is not found, :exc:`NotImplementedError` will be raised.
+ system this will query ``/dev/urandom``, and on Windows it will use
+ ``CryptGenRandom()``. If a randomness source is not found,
+ :exc:`NotImplementedError` will be raised.
For an easy-to-use interface to the random number generator
provided by your platform, please see :class:`random.SystemRandom`.