Paul McMillan wrote:
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Jared Grubb <jared.gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree; it sounds really odd to throw an exception since nothing is actually
wrong and there's nothing the caller would do about it to recover anyway.
Rather than throwing an exception, maybe you just reseed the random value for
the hash
This is nonsense. You have to determine the random seed at startup,
and it has to be uniform for the entire life of the process. You can't
change it after Python has started.
I may have a terminology problem here. I expect that a random seed must change
every time it is used, otherwise the pseudorandom number generator using it
just returns the same value each time. Should we be talking about a salt
rather than a seed?
--
Steven
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