Scott David Daniels wrote:
I find I have a need in randomized testing for a shorter version of getstate, even if it _is_ slower to restore. When running exhaustive tests, a failure report should show the start state of the generator. Unfortunately, our current state includes a 625-element array.
Do you need to use the Mersenne Twister in particular for this? There are other kinds of generator with very long cycles and good statistical properties, that can easily be restored to any state in constant time given an initial state and a count. Let me know if you're interested and I can give you further details. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
