On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Neal Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I would like to generate random numbers based on a random seed, for
>> example what numpy.random does if the seed is not specified. But I
>> would also like to print out the initial state, so I can replicate the
>> random numbers.
>>
>> Can I get a human readable or printable version of the initial state?
>> Alternatively, what's a good way to randomly generate an initial
>> state?
>>
>> I could draw an integer with randint and use it as seed. Is this the best
>> way?
>>
>> Josef
>
> import struct
> import os
> seed = struct.unpack ('I', os.urandom (4))[0]
> print seed
>>> os.urandom(4)
'\x02\xcf\xd5`'
>>> np.array(os.urandom(4)).view(int)
array(-452038899)
>>> import struct
>>> seed = struct.unpack ('I', os.urandom (4))[0]
>>> seed
3650333822L
>>> np.random.seed(seed)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#182>", line 1, in <module>
np.random.seed(seed)
File "mtrand.pyx", line 593, in mtrand.RandomState.seed
(numpy\random\mtrand\mtrand.c:4786)
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
Josef
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