New submission from Justin Lebar <star...@gmail.com>: Many programmers are used to languages where the RNG is deterministic unless it's explicitly seeded. This does not appear to be the case in Python.
The documentation for random should indicate that Random objects are seeded on construction, and that the global random object is seeded when the random package is first imported. http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/random.html ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 98551 nosy: Justin.Lebar, georg.brandl severity: normal status: open title: Documentation for random module should indicate that a call to seed() is not required _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7809> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
