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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2016-09-04 18:17:48 (GMT)
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@@ -96,11 +96,13 @@ class Random(_random.Random):
None or no argument seeds from current time or from an operating
system specific randomness source if available.
- For version 2 (the default), all of the bits are used if *a* is a str,
- bytes, or bytearray. For version 1, the hash() of *a* is used instead.
-
If *a* is an int, all bits are used.
+ For version 2 (the default), all of the bits are used if *a* is a str,
+ bytes, or bytearray. For version 1 (provided for reproducing random
+ sequences from older versions of Python), the algorithm for str and
+ bytes generates a narrower range of seeds.
+
"""
if a is None: