Random and fork

[Julien Le Goff]

Thank you for the answers! It was much simpler than I thought.

On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:49:06 UTC+1, Alain Ketterlin  wrote:
> Julien Le Goff <julien.legoff at gmail.com> writes:
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> > Today I came accross a behaviour I did not expect in python (I am
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> > using 2.7). In my program, random.random() always seemed to return the
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> > same number; it turned out to be related to the fact that I was using
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> > os.fork.
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> The random number generator is initialized once, when the module is
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> first imported. Forking simply duplicates the process in its current
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> state, so no reinitilization occurs, both (or all) processes' generators
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> are in the same state, and therefore generate the same sequence.
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> -- Alain.