[issue7889] random produces different output on different architectures

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

[Antoine]
> >>> random.seed(int.from_bytes(b'foo', 'little'))

+1 for either documenting this useful trick, or modifying init_by_array to do this automatically for buffer-like objects.

Disallowing other types of input for the seed sounds dangerous, though.

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