Name
seed
Synopsis
seed(x
=None)
Initializes the generator state. x
can be
any hashable object. When x
is
None
, and also automatically when module
random
is first loaded, seed
uses the current system time to get a seed.
x
is normally a long integer up to
27814431486575L
. Larger
x
values are accepted, but may produce the
same generator states as smaller ones.
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