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SF bug #778964: bad seed in python 2.3 random

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The default seed is time.time().
Multiplied by 256 before truncating so that fractional seconds are used.
This way, two successive calls to random.seed() are much more likely
to produce different sequences.
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Raymond Hettinger 2003-08-09 18:30:57 +00:00
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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class TestBasicOps(unittest.TestCase):
def test_autoseed(self):
self.gen.seed()
state1 = self.gen.getstate()
time.sleep(1.1)
time.sleep(0.1)
self.gen.seed() # diffent seeds at different times
state2 = self.gen.getstate()
self.assertNotEqual(state1, state2)