change of random state when pyc created??

[Chris Mellon]

On 5/9/07, Alan G Isaac <aisaac at american.edu> wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
> > http://docs.python.org/lib/typesmapping.html
> > """
> > Keys and values are listed in an arbitrary order which is non-random, varies
> > across Python implementations, and depends on the dictionary's history of
> > insertions and deletions.
> > """
>
>
> Even this does not tell me that if I use a specified implementation
> that my results can vary from run to run.  That is, it still does
> not communicate that rerunning an *unchanged* program with an
> *unchanged* implementation can produce a change in results.
>

Well, now you know. I'm not sure why you expect any given program to
be idempotent unless you take specific measures to ensure that anyway.