New submission from Juan Jimenez <fly...@gmail.com>:
I have invented a new way to seed the random number generator with about as random a source of seeds as can be found: hashes generated from high cadence, high resolution images of the surface of the Sun. These are captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's (SDO) Atmospheric Imaging Assembly's (AIA) cameras at various frequencies. I wrote the POC code in Python and can be seen at https://github.com/flybd5/heliorandom. The HelioViewer project liked the idea and modified their API to do essentially what my POC code does at https://api.helioviewer.org/?action=getRandomSeed. Perhaps a solarseed() call could be created for the library to get seeds that way rather than from the system clock? ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 373487 nosy: flybd5 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Better way to random.seed()? type: enhancement versions: Python 3.10 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41274> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
