From 981c1dc8b6a5673aa59a213cd62e7a8a3cb3fdd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:07:47 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Clarify os.urandom return type (GH-30282) Other descriptions in the same file also use 'bytestring' to refer to bytes objects (cherry picked from commit 4b99803b861e58eb476a7a30e2e8aacdec5df104) Co-authored-by: Florian Bruhin --- Doc/library/os.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index f8d567af4846..d70f403e8cf1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -4623,7 +4623,7 @@ 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, -- 2.47.3