Merge 3.5 (doc)

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Victor Stinner 2015-07-29 02:29:54 +02:00
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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.

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* :class:`os.stat_result` now has a :attr:`~os.stat_result.st_file_attributes`
attribute on Windows. (Contributed by Ben Hoyt in :issue:`21719`.)
* :func:`os.urandom`: 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.
os.path
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