diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst index b6b0b6c4daf..486e4754517 100644 --- a/Doc/library/random.rst +++ b/Doc/library/random.rst @@ -52,7 +52,11 @@ known to fail some stringent randomness tests. See the references below for a recent variant that repairs these flaws. .. versionchanged:: 2.3 - Substituted MersenneTwister for Wichmann-Hill. + MersenneTwister replaced Wichmann-Hill as the default generator. + +The :mod:`random` module also provides the :class:`SystemRandom` class which +uses the system function :func:`os.urandom` to generate random numbers +from sources provided by the operating system. Bookkeeping functions: