Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 18:54 -0400, Alexander Belopolsky a écrit :
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:32 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote:
> ..
> >> Either way, the code is simpler by just using the default.
> >
> > ... as long as the casual reader knows what the default it :-)
> >
>
> .. or cares. I this particular case, it hardly matters how random
> bits are encoded.
You don't get the same random number sequence if you use a different
encoding.
>>> r=random.Random()
>>> r.seed('\xe9'.encode('iso-8859-1')); r.randint(0, 1000)
639
>>> r.seed('\xe9'.encode('utf-8')); r.randint(0, 1000)
992
So it is useful to know how the seed was computed. The real question is
which encoding gives the most random numbers? :-)
Victor
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