[issue21470] Better seeding for the random module
Tim Peters
report at bugs.python.org
Tue May 13 01:46:52 CEST 2014
Tim Peters added the comment:
> Thanks for the explanation. It's much clearer now.
Maybe, but it's also overblown - LOL ;-) That is, no matter what the starting seed, the user will see a microscopically tiny span of the Twister's entire period. So all those "provably correct" properties that depend on whole-period analysis remain pretty much theoretical no matter what we do.
It's just a "better safe than sorry" thing.
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