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bpo-44611: Update docs for os and whatsnew 3.11 (#27314)

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device. If the ``/dev/urandom`` device is not available or not readable, the
:exc:`NotImplementedError` exception is raised.
On Windows, it will use ``CryptGenRandom()``.
On Windows, it will use ``BCryptGenRandom()``.
.. seealso::
The :mod:`secrets` module provides higher level functions. For an
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function is now used. These functions avoid the usage of an internal file
descriptor.
.. versionchanged:: 3.11
On Windows, ``BCryptGenRandom()`` is used instead of ``CryptGenRandom()``
which is deprecated.
.. data:: GRND_NONBLOCK
By default, when reading from ``/dev/random``, :func:`getrandom` blocks if

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os
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* On Windows, :func:`os.urandom`: uses BCryptGenRandom API instead of CryptGenRandom API
which is deprecated from Microsoft Windows API.
* On Windows, :func:`os.urandom` uses ``BCryptGenRandom()`` instead of ``CryptGenRandom()``
which is deprecated.
(Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`44611`.)