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Improve docs for random.seed()

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Raymond Hettinger 2016-09-04 11:17:28 -07:00
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@ -96,11 +96,13 @@ class Random(_random.Random):
None or no argument seeds from current time or from an operating
system specific randomness source if available.
For version 2 (the default), all of the bits are used if *a* is a str,
bytes, or bytearray. For version 1, the hash() of *a* is used instead.
If *a* is an int, all bits are used.
For version 2 (the default), all of the bits are used if *a* is a str,
bytes, or bytearray. For version 1 (provided for reproducing random
sequences from older versions of Python), the algorithm for str and
bytes generates a narrower range of seeds.
"""
if a is None: