Seeding the rand() Generator

[Xavier Ho]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Fred Atkinson <fatkinson at mishmash.com>wrote:

> I tried using the same command I used when I did this in PHP.
> That command was: mt_srand(date("w"))
>
>        It was a PHP command that seeds the MySQL random function,
> according to the folks on the PHP newsgroup.


Well, some people have suggested to use that inside Python. That would work,
right?

Although, if you're just trying to find the Python-equivalent, fair enough.

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Ching-Yun "Xavier" Ho, Technical Artist

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