Matthias Kievernagel wrote: > In my top-level script I want to select if my program > is to use random.xxx functions or the random.SystemRandom.xxx > ones. All the other modules shouldn't know about that > switch and simply use > import random > ... > return random.randint(1, 6) > ... > for example.
You can inject the SystemRandom instance into the sys.modules cache: >>> import random >>> random <module 'random' from '/usr/lib/python2.6/random.pyc'> >>> sr = random.SystemRandom() >>> import sys >>> sys.modules["random"] = sr Then use it in the other modules: >>> import random >>> random <random.SystemRandom object at 0x1acdb60> Another approach is to monkey-patch the random module: import random sr = random.SystemRandom() random.randrange = sr.randrange random.randint = sr.randint ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
