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Author tim.peters
Recipients Arfrever, alex, dstufft, ezio.melotti, mark.dickinson, neologix, pitrou, rhettinger, tim.peters, vstinner
Date 2014-05-11.21:45:03
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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.

Note that "hash randomization" is a different thing, unrelated to random.py.
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