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#7076: mention SystemRandom class near start of the module docs; reword change description for clarity. Noted by Shawn Ligocki.

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@ -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: