Re: random seed

2005-08-17 Thread Magnus Lycka
Robert Kern wrote: > random.seed(1234567890) > > is traditional and works just fine. > > Other favorites: > > 3141592653589793 > 2718281828459045 Nothing beats 42! (That was just an exclamation mark in the end, no factorial intended.) 371 is another nice number, since it's its own revers

Re: random seed

2005-08-16 Thread Robert Kern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks. I guess I will use the system time and pass it as seed > explicitly. My goal is to replicate the random numbers that I generate > to ensure repeatabilty in the regression test suite that I am trying > to write. In that case you should just pick a single seed yo

Re: random seed

2005-08-16 Thread vivek7006
Thanks. I guess I will use the system time and pass it as seed explicitly. My goal is to replicate the random numbers that I generate to ensure repeatabilty in the regression test suite that I am trying to write. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: random seed

2005-08-16 Thread tiissa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > By default, randomm module uses the timestamp to generate the seed > value. Is it possible to know what that seed value is? From a (very) quick glance at the doc [1], I'm not sure you can get it. But if you want to reuse it later (for a deterministic behaviour), you