From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:29:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #7076: mention SystemRandom class near start of the module docs; reword change descri... 
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#7076: mention SystemRandom class near start of the module docs; reword change description for clarity.  Noted by Shawn Ligocki.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst
index b6b0b6c4da..486e475451 100644
--- a/Doc/library/random.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/random.rst
@@ -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: