C API for Python's RNG?

Fri Jun 28 15:35:23 EDT 2002

* Tom Loredo <loredo at astro.cornell.edu> [2002-06-28 15:41 -0400]:
> Tom Loredo wrote:
> > 
> > I'll dig in the source to try to puzzle
> > it out, but I thought I should ask publicly:  
> 
> Oops!  I should have dug first---the standard lib RNG is pure
> Python.  So I guess it's Numeric or some third-party RNG if
> I want to do this quickly.  Any suggestions?

<clueless>
What about reading from /dev/random?
</clueless>

Isn't rand() even in the C standard library? Ok, the standard
implementation is normally pretty bad, or so I hear.

Gerhard
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reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))