On 2010-02-24 14:02 PM, mk wrote:
It would appear that SystemRandom().choice is indeed best (in terms of how much the counts stray from mean in std devs), but only after seeding it with os.urandom.
Calling random.seed() does not affect SystemRandom() whatsoever. You are getting perfectly acceptable distributions for all three variants.
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