[New-bugs-announce] [issue29023] Results of random.seed() call with integer argument should be claimed deterministic.

[Jakub Mateusz Kowalski]

New submission from Jakub Mateusz Kowalski:

In https://docs.python.org/2/library/random.html#random.seed I can find that "If a hashable object is given, deterministic results are only assured when PYTHONHASHSEED is disabled."

Both int and long are hashable. However, tests on the random module as well as C source code of random_seed (as indicated in http://stackoverflow.com/a/41228062/4879688) suggest that behaviour of the module is deterministic when seeded with an integer.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 283686
nosy: Jakub.Mateusz.Kowalski, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Results of random.seed() call with integer argument should be claimed deterministic.
versions: Python 2.7

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