Message6721

Author	fdb
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Date	2011-11-16.15:05:53
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Take the following code: from random import seed, choice for i in range(1000): seed(i) print choice("abcdef"), In Jython 2.5.2, this produces only letter "e"'s, 1000 after each other. In Python 2.7.1, this produces a random variation for every seed. In Jython, higher seeds do work, so using seed(math.pow(i, 5)) would generate "better" random variations.

Take the following code:

from random import seed, choice
for i in range(1000):
  seed(i)
  print choice("abcdef"),


In Jython 2.5.2, this produces only letter "e"'s, 1000 after each other.
In Python 2.7.1, this produces a random variation for every seed.

In Jython, higher seeds do work, so using 

  seed(math.pow(i, 5))

would generate "better" random variations.

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