Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:51:30 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>I've never heard of anybody using the data as source of >>entropy. > > Me neither, but the original poster did ask how to read every nth byte > of "the Internet stream", so I assumed he had something like that in mind.
And to think that if you'd just waited for the OP to explain what the heck he meant by "the Internet stream", you'd have saved ever so much time. ;-) (But then, if we always did that Usenet wouldn't be any fun.) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
