Gary E. Miller added the comment:

> The docs are clear that System Random uses os.urandom() for creating random 
> numbers, that there is not state, that sequences aren't reproducible, and 
> that seed method has no effect and is ignored.  

Agreed, but not relevant. I have anecdotal proof that the docs are not clear to 
a number of talented Python programmers that the seed parameter is not used.  
Or that the seed parameter is passed to the seed() method (and thus unused).

Disappointing...

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