On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:53:50 -0700, Scott David Daniels
<scott.dani...@acm.org> wrote:
>Fred Atkinson wrote:
>> How does one seed the rand() generator when retrieving random
>> recordings in MySQL?
>
>It is not entirely clear what you are asking. If you are talking about
>MySQL's random number generator, you are talking in the wrong newsgroup.
>If you are talking about Python's, does this work?
> import random
> random.seed(123542552)
>I'm not quite sure how you came to believe that Python controls MySQL,
>as opposed to using its services.
>
>--Scott David Daniels
>scott.dani...@acm.org
I am coding in Python.
I am accessing a MySQL database.
I have a string to instruct the MySQL database to use the
'rand()' function to randomly choose one of the records in the
database.
I know how to seed it in PHP. Does anyone know how to see it
from with Python?
Regards,
Fred
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