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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-01-19 21:58:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-01-19 21:58:13 (GMT) |
| commit | ee077500888ca5c1360bbd224b3af4a0fbbf6e02 (patch) | |
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doc: Clarify os.urandom return type (GH-30282)
Other descriptions in the same file also use 'bytestring' to refer to bytes objects
(cherry picked from commit 4b99803b861e58eb476a7a30e2e8aacdec5df104)
Co-authored-by: Florian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 629a32f..5b2c2e0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -4869,7 +4869,7 @@ Random numbers .. function:: urandom(size) - Return a string of *size* random bytes suitable for cryptographic use. + Return a bytestring of *size* random bytes suitable for cryptographic use. This function returns random bytes from an OS-specific randomness source. The returned data should be unpredictable enough for cryptographic applications, |