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Author gem
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Date 2017-01-04.23:44:44
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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.
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