March 26, 2009
7:48 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> wrote:
It's not even broken in a theoretical sense. It does exactly what it says it does.
Besides, this whole conversation is somewhat senseless. You can't get any more randomness out of a generator than you put into the seed in the first place. If you're not putting thousands of digits in your seed, then no PRNG is going to give you an equal chance of producing every possible shuffle for a large list.
Indeed, a million item list requires over 2 megabytes of entropy. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus