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doc: Clarify os.urandom return type (GH-30282)
authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:58:13 +0000 (13:58 -0800)
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Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:58:13 +0000 (13:58 -0800)
Other descriptions in the same file also use 'bytestring' to refer to bytes objects
(cherry picked from commit 4b99803b861e58eb476a7a30e2e8aacdec5df104)

Co-authored-by: Florian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org>
Doc/library/os.rst

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@@ -4869,7 +4869,7 @@ Random numbers
 
 .. function:: urandom(size)
 
-   Return a string of *size* random bytes suitable for cryptographic use.
+   Return a bytestring of *size* random bytes suitable for cryptographic use.
 
    This function returns random bytes from an OS-specific randomness source.  The
    returned data should be unpredictable enough for cryptographic applications,