[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): Avoid codec spelling issues by just using the utf-8 default.

[Victor Stinner]

Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 18:54 -0400, Alexander Belopolsky a écrit :
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:32 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> ..
> >> Either way, the code is simpler by just using the default.
> >
> > ... as long as the casual reader knows what the default it :-)
> >
> 
> .. or cares.  I this particular case, it hardly matters how random
> bits are encoded.

You don't get the same random number sequence if you use a different
encoding.

>>> r=random.Random()
>>> r.seed('\xe9'.encode('iso-8859-1')); r.randint(0, 1000)
639
>>> r.seed('\xe9'.encode('utf-8')); r.randint(0, 1000)
992

So it is useful to know how the seed was computed. The real question is
which encoding gives the most random numbers? :-)

Victor