Re: Random and fork

2013-02-07 Thread Julien Le Goff
Thank you for the answers! It was much simpler than I thought. On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:49:06 UTC+1, Alain Ketterlin wrote: > Julien Le Goff writes: > > > > > Today I came accross a behaviour I did not expect in python (I am > > > using 2.7). In my prog

Random and fork

2013-02-06 Thread Julien Le Goff
Hi everyone, Today I came accross a behaviour I did not expect in python (I am using 2.7). In my program, random.random() always seemed to return the same number; it turned out to be related to the fact that I was using os.fork. See below a small program that illustrates this. It is easily fixe