On Mar 4, 4:40 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 4, 3:00 pm, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 4, 3:13 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But what if _I_ wanted to make a repeatable sequence for test > > > purposes? Wouldn't factorint() destroy my attempt by reseeding > > > on every call? > > > Would it? > > I don't know, haven't tried it yet,
Now I have and there is no problem. > merely extrapolating from how I _THINK_ it works. And my thinking was mistaken, the patch doesn't reset the seed, so nevermind. > I used to be a System Test Engineer > and had a gift for being able to walk up to hardware/software > and break it. Spooky? No, because I could extrapolate from > the design, I could often anticipate just where to nudge it to > cause it to crash. I wasn't very popular with the programmers. > > > > > It may just be that you are now itching to see a problem even where > > there isn't one. > > No, no, no. That would be an oh-what-a-giveaway, wouldn't it? > > > > > > > i.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
