!random --- Generate pseudo-random numbers — Bookkeeping functions

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Initialize the random number generator. If a is omitted or None, the current system time is used. If randomness sources are provided by the operating system, they are used instead of the system time (see the os.urandom function for details on availability). If a is an int, its absolute value is used directly. With version 2 (the default), a str, bytes, or bytearray object gets converted to an int and all of its bits are used. With version 1 (provided for reproducing random sequences from older versions of Python), the algorithm for str and bytes generates a narrower range of seeds. Return an object capturing the current internal state of the generator. This object can be passed to setstate to restore the state. state should have been obtained from a previous call to getstate, and setstate restores the internal state of the generator to what it was at the time getstate was called. Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.