[issue21470] Better seeding for the random module

Tim Peters report at bugs.python.org
Sun May 11 23:45:03 CEST 2014


Tim Peters added the comment:

[neologix]
> some code spawns many processes per second (see recent
> discussion on python-dev).

But that doesn't imply they're seeding the random module many times per second, right? Seeding isn't part of Python initialization, it's part of importing the `random` module.

Note that "hash randomization" is a different thing, unrelated to random.py.

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