"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It's not irrelevant; the test2 module has to be *executed* as part of > the import. [...] seed(314) is executed.
OK, I understand this is the right answer. But another way to look at the question is: is it a good design to only be able to use seed to set a global state? (See for contrast numpy.random, for which my appreciation has just increased yet again.) Cheers, Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list