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gh-142527: Docs: Clarify that random.seed() discards the sign of an integer input (#142483)

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If *a* is an integer, the sign of *a* is discarded in the C source code. Clarify this behavior to prevent foot guns, where a common use case might naively assume that flipping the sign will produce different sequences (e.g. for a train/test split of a synthetic data generator in machine learning).

Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Bookkeeping functions
instead of the system time (see the :func:`os.urandom` function for details
on availability).
If *a* is an int, it is used directly.
If *a* is an int, its absolute value is used directly.
With version 2 (the default), a :class:`str`, :class:`bytes`, or :class:`bytearray`
object gets converted to an :class:`int` and all of its bits are used.