2011/5/5 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > .. >> (also, I don't understand the spelling issue: "utf-8" just works) > > This is probably referring to the fact that while encode() accepts > many spelling variants, some are short-circuited in C code while > others require codec lookup implemented in python.
Isn't it cached after the first run? If this is the reasoning, I find it hard to believe that seed() is a large bottleneck in random. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com