Assuming you're using the Python's random module, which works based on the Mersenne Twister, you can preset the seed with random.seed(hashable).
More details here: http://docs.python.org/library/random.html#random.seed ~Temia On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:51:18 +0200, you wrote: >Hi, > >I'm working with some sorting algorithms and I want to compare their >efficiency. One test fills a list with one million random integers, >which serves as input for the algorithms. However, if this list is >different each time I run the tests, the tests wouldn't be fair. At >the moment the selected sorting alg. can be specified with a switch >and only one alg. is tested each time. > >So what I want is the following: fill the list with random numbers, >but when I re-execute the script, I want the same "random" numbers in >the same order. This way each sorting alg. would get the same input. > >As a workaround, I made a generator that outputs a random list in a >file, and this list is read each time by the testing script. I just >wonder if there is a more elegant solution. > >Thanks, > >Laszlo -- When on earth, do as the earthlings do. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
