Random numbers

[emile at fenx.com]

Russell,

If I'm not mistaken, whrandom is imported by random, and importing
random would be the normal way of accessing it.

Repeatable sequences can be generated by reseeding with the same value:

>>> import random
>>> random.seed("Spam")
>>> print random.random()
0.188524911272
>>> print random.random()
0.795451892756
>>> print random.random()
0.191986312458
>>> random.seed("Spam")
>>> print random.random()
0.188524911272
>>> print random.random()
0.795451892756
>>> print random.random()
0.191986312458

HTH,

Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

Russell Wallace <rwallace at esatclear.ie> wrote in message
news:<3929068F.622C at esatclear.ie>...
> Oops sorry, pressed the wrong button.  Trying again:
> 
> Is there any difference between the random number generator in the'
> random' module and that in the 'whrandom' one?
> 
> What's the quality of the numbers generated?  I don't need the absolute
> best, but hopefully it's at least better than a linear congruential
> generator?
> 
> Is there a way to get a reproducible sequence of random numbers? 
> seed(0,0,0) doesn't seem to have any effect.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> "To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."
> Russell Wallace
> mailto:rwallace at esatclear.ie
> http://www.esatclear.ie/~rwallace
> -- 
> http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>