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Re:Unbiased Randomization with the Fisher-Yates Shuffle by twisted1827 on Monday August 11, 2014 @05:17PM (#8165355)
Python's Mersenne Twister was first seeded with 32 bytes, changed to 2500 bytes here:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7b5265752942

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Re:Unbiased Randomization with the Fisher-Yates Shuffle by TheLoneWolfling on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @11:11PM (#8171293)
/dev/urandom on Linux only has an internal state of 1024 bits [1]

As Python's Mersenne Twister is seeded with urandom...

[1] https://pthree.org/2014/07/21/the-linux-random-number-genera...

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