Gary E. Miller added the comment: > The docs are clear that System Random uses os.urandom() for creating random > numbers, that there is not state, that sequences aren't reproducible, and > that seed method has no effect and is ignored.
Agreed, but not relevant. I have anecdotal proof that the docs are not clear to a number of talented Python programmers that the seed parameter is not used. Or that the seed parameter is passed to the seed() method (and thus unused). Disappointing... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29161> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com