Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:

A couple of points:

(1) In addition to documenting the extent of the repeatability, it would be 
good to have tests to prevent changes that inadvertently change the sequence of 
randrange values.

(2) For large arguments, cross-platform reproducibility is already a bit 
fragile.  For example, the _randbelow function depends on the system _log 
function---see the line

    k = int(1.00001 + _log(n-1, 2.0))

Now that we have the bit_length method available, it might be better to use 
that.

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