* Julien Le Goff [2013-02-06 08:28:24 -0800]:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Today I came accross a behaviour I did not expect in python (I am using 2.7).
> In my program, random.random() always seemed to return the same number; it
> turned out to be related to the fact that I was using os.fork.
>
> See
Thank you for the answers! It was much simpler than I thought.
On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:49:06 UTC+1, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
> Julien Le Goff writes:
>
>
>
> > Today I came accross a behaviour I did not expect in python (I am
>
> > using 2.7). In my program, random.random() always see
Julien Le Goff writes:
> Today I came accross a behaviour I did not expect in python (I am
> using 2.7). In my program, random.random() always seemed to return the
> same number; it turned out to be related to the fact that I was using
> os.fork.
The random number generator is initialized once,
Julien Le Goff wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Today I came accross a behaviour I did not expect in python (I am using
> 2.7). In my program, random.random() always seemed to return the same
> number; it turned out to be related to the fact that I was using os.fork.
>
> See below a small program that
Hi everyone,
Today I came accross a behaviour I did not expect in python (I am using 2.7).
In my program, random.random() always seemed to return the same number; it
turned out to be related to the fact that I was using os.fork.
See below a small program that illustrates this. It is easily fixe
