[Tutor] Re: A question on randomness

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:22:48PM +0200, Andrea Valle wrote:

| It' a couple of year I work with random generators.

| I know pseudo-random generation is a complex matter. Is there a way to
| "improve" it?

If you don't like python's builtin pseudo-random generator, you can
use the kernel's :

rand =3D open( "/dev/random" , "r" )
data =3D rand.read( 10 ) # just 10 bytes of random data
rand.close()

This works on linux; I don't know about other unices.

-D

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