Message 218302 - Python tracker

Message218302

Author	pitrou
Recipients	Arfrever, alex, dstufft, ezio.melotti, mark.dickinson, neologix, pitrou, rhettinger, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2014-05-11.21:47:36
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In-reply-to	<1399844703.45.0.615867197377.issue21470@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> [neologix] > > some code spawns many processes per second (see recent > > discussion on python-dev). > > But that doesn't imply they're seeding the random module many times > per second, right? Seeding isn't part of Python initialization, it's > part of importing the `random` module. It's easy to import the random module, even for a specific library function which may never be called by the program being run.

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> [neologix]
> > some code spawns many processes per second (see recent
> > discussion on python-dev).
> 
> But that doesn't imply they're seeding the random module many times
> per second, right? Seeding isn't part of Python initialization, it's
> part of importing the `random` module.

It's easy to import the random module, even for a specific library
function which may never be called by the program being run.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-05-11 21:47:37	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, tim.peters, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, vstinner, ezio.melotti, Arfrever, alex, neologix, dstufft
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2014-05-11 21:47:36	pitrou	create