change of random state when pyc created??

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Wed May 9 17:01:02 EDT 2007


Alan G Isaac 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.

The last clause does tell me that.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco




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