New submission from Gary E. Miller: The man page for random.SystemRandom([seed]]) fails to mention that the parameter 'seed' is never used. This should be prominent in the documentation. I have found several cases where a seed was provided to SystemRandom().
https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/random.html?highlight=systemrandom Present in all versions of Python docs that I could find. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 284678 nosy: gem priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: random.SystemRandom(seed) documentation issue type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29161> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com