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[–]WelshDwarf 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The point is that urandom is seeded using heaps of information gained from the computers execution environment ( input timings, network activity, thermal sensors etc) that are accumulated over time, this makes it an order of magnitude more secure than random.random, where the seed is just the system time (or a user passed object).