random.jumpahead: How to jump ahead exactly N steps?

2006-06-21 Thread Matthew Wilson
The random.jumpahead documentation says this: Changed in version 2.3: Instead of jumping to a specific state, n steps ahead, jumpahead(n) jumps to another state likely to be separated by many steps.. I really want a way to get to the Nth value in a random series started with a

Re: random.jumpahead: How to jump ahead exactly N steps?

2006-06-21 Thread Tim Peters
[Matthew Wilson] The random.jumpahead documentation says this: Changed in version 2.3: Instead of jumping to a specific state, n steps ahead, jumpahead(n) jumps to another state likely to be separated by many steps.. I really want a way to get to the Nth value in a random series

Re: random.jumpahead: How to jump ahead exactly N steps?

2006-06-21 Thread Ben Cartwright
Matthew Wilson wrote: The random.jumpahead documentation says this: Changed in version 2.3: Instead of jumping to a specific state, n steps ahead, jumpahead(n) jumps to another state likely to be separated by many steps.. This change was necessary because the random module got a