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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1996-10-21 23:20:03 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1996-10-21 23:20:03 (GMT)
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Change the default seeding -- use 8 bits of sub-second precision and
fold in the higest 8 bits of the time as well.
-rw-r--r--Lib/whrandom.py3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/whrandom.py b/Lib/whrandom.py
index 8ed39c9..3cc1532 100644
--- a/Lib/whrandom.py
+++ b/Lib/whrandom.py
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ class whrandom:
if 0 == x == y == z:
# Initialize from current time
import time
- t = int(time.time() % 0x80000000)
+ t = long(time.time() * 256)
+ t = int((t&0xffffff) | (t>>24))
t, x = divmod(t, 256)
t, y = divmod(t, 256)
t, z = divmod(t, 256)