"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > My testing suggests the bug is *not* to do with pyc files at all. I'm > getting different results when running the files, even when the directory > is read-only (and therefore no pyc files can be created). > > My results suggest that setting the seed to the same value does NOT give > identical results, *even though* the random number generator is giving > the same results. > > So I think we can discount the issue being anything to do with either > the .pyc files or the random number generator.
I do not know how Python handles your use of a readonly directory. What I have seen is: - when a test1.pyc file is present, I always get the same outcome (result1) - when a test1.pyc file is NOT present, I always get the same outcome (result2) - the two outcomes are different (result1 != result2) Do you see something different than this if you run the test as I suggested? If not, how can in not involve the .pyc file (in some sense)? Cheers, Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list