On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Tim Peters wrote: > If you want /true/ randomness, you can buy a certified hardware random > number generator, based on non-deterministic physical processes (like > timing radioactive decay, or measuring thermal noise).
Why buy when you can borrow?: def truerandom(n): """ truerandom(n) --> str Return a string of n truly random bytes. see: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/generate.html """ import urllib _url = "http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Hotbits?nbytes=%s&fmt=bin" % n return urllib.urlopen(_url).read() _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor