From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:19:40 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Issue #16190: fix random module recommendation to use ssl.RAND_bytes().
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0a2~214^2
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba69008bd0999d8fd088b8e66caf019baf73c576;p=python

Issue #16190: fix random module recommendation to use ssl.RAND_bytes().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst
index 55c9d7053b..11dd367f8a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/random.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/random.rst
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ from sources provided by the operating system.
 
 .. warning::
 
-   The generators of the :mod:`random` module should not be used for security
-   purposes. Use :func:`ssl.RAND_bytes` if you require a cryptographically
-   secure pseudorandom number generator.
+   The pseudo-random generators of this module should not be used for
+   security purposes.  Use :func:`os.urandom` or :class:`SystemRandom` if
+   you require a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator.
 
 
 Bookkeeping functions: