Re: [sage-devel] random() and the random module

2011-04-04 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:01 PM, D. M. Monarres wrote: > Was working on some code that required the random shuffling of the order of > a list and noticed that there was both a random() function implemented in > the sage library and a random module in the python standard library. > Importing the lat

[sage-devel] random() and the random module

2011-04-03 Thread D. M. Monarres
Was working on some code that required the random shuffling of the order of a list and noticed that there was both a random() function implemented in the sage library and a random module in the python standard library. Importing the latter seems to overwrite the former and I was wondering if that w