> [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.