module random: delay in "seeding"

[Roman Suzi]

On 4 May 2002, Paul Rubin wrote:

>Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:
>> > While it is quite understandable that normally distributed numbers
>> > come in pairs, but I thought seed() resets the state of random module...
>> > I think this sometimes can cause errors.
>> 
>> I agree, but it's one of those things that can't be changed without risking
>> breaking code relying on the broken behavior (which has been broken
>> forever).  If you get unanimous agreement from all the usual c.l.py suspects
>> that they won't piss and moan if I fix it, I will.
>
>I'm in favor of fixing it.

Yes, me too. That was the reason I posted my notice.

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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