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Expand Up @@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ Bookkeeping functions
instead of the system time (see the :func:`os.urandom` function for details
on availability).

If *a* is an int, it is used directly.
If *a* is an int, its absolute value is used directly.

With version 2 (the default), a :class:`str`, :class:`bytes`, or :class:`bytearray`
object gets converted to an :class:`int` and all of its bits are used.
object gets converted to an :class:`int` and all of its bits except the sign are used.

With version 1 (provided for reproducing random sequences from older versions
of Python), the algorithm for :class:`str` and :class:`bytes` generates a
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