Does shuffle() produce uniform result ?
Alex Martelli
aleax at mac.com
Sun Aug 26 01:14:37 EDT 2007
tooru honda <tooru_honda at fast-mail.org> wrote:
...
> def rand2():
> while True:
> randata = urandom(2*1024)
> for i in xrange(0, 2*1024, 2):
> yield int(hexlify(randata[i:i+2]),16) # integer
> in [0,65535]
another equivalent possibility, which might probably be faster:
import array
...
def rand2():
while True:
x = array.array("H")
x.fromstring(urandom(2*4000))
for i in x: yield i
Alex
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