On 2009-08-04, Fred Atkinson <fatkin...@mishmash.com> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:00:08 -0700 (PDT), Carl Banks ><pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>If you don't "get" why this is a MySQL question and not a Python >>question, then you need to learn more about what you are doing. > > I wouldn't agree. > > I tried using the same command I used when I did this in PHP. > That command was: mt_srand(date("w")) > > It was a PHP command that seeds the MySQL random function, > according to the folks on the PHP newsgroup.
It seems that they lied to you. Did you actually try that ? > I'm trying to figure out what the Python equivalent of that > is. Python equivalent of that is random.seed(x), if PHP docs are to be believed. > Now do you see? What you acutally want is "select *,rand(3) as rand from table order by rand" or something like that. That 3 is the seed in there. -- Jarkko Torppa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list