On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 3:31 PM Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote:
Consider the following:

from numpy.random import default_rng
rs = default_rng()

Now how do I re-seed the generator?
I thought perhaps rs.bit_generator.seed(), but there is no such attribute.

In general, reseeding an existing generator instance is not a good practice. What effect are you trying to accomplish? I assume that you are asking this because you are currently using `RandomState.seed()`. In what circumstances?

The raw `bit_generator.state` property *can* be assigned to, in order to support some advanced use cases (mostly involving de/serialization and similar kinds of meta-programming tasks). It's also been helpful for me to construct worst-case scenarios for testing parallel streams. But it quite deliberately bypasses the notion of deriving the state from a human-friendly seed number.
 
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Robert Kern