Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: This wouldn't be the first time reproduceability is dropped, since reading from the docs:
“As an example of subclassing, the random module provides the WichmannHill class that implements an alternative generator in pure Python. The class provides a backward compatible way to reproduce results from earlier versions of Python, which used the Wichmann-Hill algorithm as the core generator.” Also: > FWIW, we spent ten years maintaining the ability to reproduce > sequences. It has become an implicit promise. IMO it should either be documented explicitly, or be taken less dearly. There's not much value in an "implicit promise" that's only known by a select few. (besides, as Terry said, I think most people are more concerned by the quality of the random distribution than by the reproduceability of sequences) ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9025> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
