[Sugar-devel] Random numbers and the Journal

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

I'm using python's random.getrandbits() to generate unique identifiers in
my program.  However, I've discovered that when I start it from the
Journal, I get errors, which I can trace to the random number generator
producing the same sequence of random numbers that was generated when I
started it the first time.  It is as if the random seed is being reset
every time I launch from the Journal.

Does anyone know what's going on here?

Thanks,
Ben

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