Improve docs for random.seed()

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
index 06513c8..4efbb0a 100644
--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -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: