Whats the difference between os.urandom() and random?

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Whats the difference between os.urandom() and random?

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Track title: Cosmic Puzzle

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Chapters
00:00 Question
00:46 Accepted answer (Score 32)
01:44 Answer 2 (Score 5)
03:55 Answer 3 (Score 1)
06:59 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4751...

Question links:
[page (Link Here)]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/random...

Accepted answer links:
[in this fantastic answer over at Crypto.SE]: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/39188...

Answer 2 links:
[this question]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3135...
[This question]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2145...
[this article]: https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-a.../
[this question]: https://softwareengineering.stackexchang...
[secrets module]: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/secr...

Answer 3 links:
[linear pseudo random generator]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_...
[SystemRandom]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/random...
[Andrey Kolmogorov]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov...
[work this out]: https://datagenetics.com/blog/february52...
[LCG]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_...

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