Scott Eilerman <scott.j.eiler...@gmail.com> added the comment: To clarify the use case where this behavior was problematic for me, I wanted to get the nth random draw from a given distribution, so I used something like:
random.seed(fixed_seed) random.sample(choices, n)[-1] Then, later, I want the next draw, so I did: random.seed(fixed_seed) random.sample(choices, n)[-1] The workaround would be to use random.shuffle and pick the nth item, or use random.sample once with the highest k value I expect to need and then pick the nth element from that list. But I settled on the above implementation because for the first few cases I tested, it returned the results I expected, and nothing in the docs suggested I should expect otherwise. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33114> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
