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@@ -3730,3 +3730,9 @@ Miscellaneous Functions
For an easy-to-use interface to the random number generator
provided by your platform, please see :class:`random.SystemRandom`.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+ On Linux 3.17 and newer, the ``getrandom()`` syscall is now used
+ when available. On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, the C ``getentropy()``
+ function is now used. These functions avoid the usage of an internal file
+ descriptor.