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To clarify the use case where this behavior was problematic for me, I wanted to get the nth random draw from a given distribution, so I used something like:
random.seed(fixed_seed)
random.sample(choices, n)[-1]
Then, later, I want the next draw, so I did:
random.seed(fixed_seed)
random.sample(choices, n)[-1]
The workaround would be to use random.shuffle and pick the nth item, or use random.sample once with the highest k value I expect to need and then pick the nth element from that list. But I settled on the above implementation because for the first few cases I tested, it returned the results I expected, and nothing in the docs suggested I should expect otherwise. |
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2018-03-21 15:26:54 | Scott Eilerman | set | recipients:
+ Scott Eilerman, rhettinger, docs@python |
2018-03-21 15:26:54 | Scott Eilerman | set | messageid: <1521646014.27.0.467229070634.issue33114@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2018-03-21 15:26:54 | Scott Eilerman | link | issue33114 messages |
2018-03-21 15:26:54 | Scott Eilerman | create | |
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