[Python-ideas] About adding a new iteratormethodcalled "shuffled"

[Jacob Holm]

Jacob Holm wrote:
> Greg Ewing wrote:
>> Jacob Holm wrote:
>>> However, by repeated shuffling and reseeding like the OP suggested, 
>>> you can in theory get to all elements of G_n
>>
>> But then you need a sufficient number of distinct seed
>> values, so you're back to the original problem.
>>
> Ehr, no. Suppose my PRNG only has period two and the shuffle based on 
> it can only generate the permutations [1, 0, 2] and [2, 1, 0] from [0, 
> 1, 2]. Each time I reseed from a truly random source, the next shuffle 
> will use one of those permutations at random. By shuffling and 
> reseeding enough times I can get all combinations of those two 
> permutations. This happens to be all 6 possible permutations of 3 
> elements.
>
Ok, I may have misinterpreted your statement. Yes, you need to reseed a 
lot. You just don't need the seeds to be different.

- Jacob