"ahmet nurlu" wrote:
> It gives error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "random.py", line 2, in ?
> from pylab import *
>File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in ?
> from matplotlib.pylab import *
>File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mat
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Mike Brown wrote:
> > I have questions about thread safety in the 'random' module.
> >
> > When using the random.Random class (be it Mersenne Twister or Wichmann-Hill
> > based), is it sufficiently thread-safe (preserving entropy and guarding
> > against attack) to just h
> > Thread-safety has nothing to do with preserving entropy or guarding
> > against attack. All of the entropy in an MT sequence is contained in
> > the seed (upto 624 bytes) and that entropy is preserved through all
> > subsequent calls.
>
> I think the concern is that there can be a thread switc
"Raymond Hettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thread-safety has nothing to do with preserving entropy or guarding
> against attack. All of the entropy in an MT sequence is contained in
> the seed (upto 624 bytes) and that entropy is preserved through all
> subsequent calls.
I think the concer
Mike Brown wrote:
> I have questions about thread safety in the 'random' module.
>
> When using the random.Random class (be it Mersenne Twister or Wichmann-Hill
> based), is it sufficiently thread-safe (preserving entropy and guarding
> against attack) to just have each thread work with its own ran
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>How to generate a random number in Python. Is there any build in
>>function I can call?
>
>
> >>> import random
> >>> help(random)
If you need crypto-quality randomness:
>>> import os
>>> help(os.urandom)
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import random
print random.randint(1,20)
#prints random integer from 1 to 20
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> How to generate a random number in Python. Is there any build in
> function I can call?
>>> import random
>>> help(random)
also see:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-random.html
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