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  r78297 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-22 03:29:10 +0100 (Mo, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  #7076: mention SystemRandom class near start of the module docs; reword change description for clarity.  Noted by Shawn Ligocki.
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  #6414: clarify description of processor endianness.
  Text by Alexey Shamrin; I changed 'DEC Alpha' to the more relevant 'Intel Itanium'.
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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:

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@ -187,9 +187,11 @@ following table:
If the first character is not one of these, ``'@'`` is assumed.
Native byte order is big-endian or little-endian, depending on the host system.
For example, Motorola and Sun processors are big-endian; Intel and DEC
processors are little-endian.
Native byte order is big-endian or little-endian, depending on the host
system. For example, Intel x86 and AMD64 (x86-64) are little-endian;
Motorola 68000 and PowerPC G5 are big-endian; ARM and Intel Itanium feature
switchable endianness (bi-endian). Use ``sys.byteorder`` to check the
endianness of your system.
Native size and alignment are determined using the C compiler's
``sizeof`` expression. This is always combined with native byte order.