Python: Random is barely random at all?
- by orokusaki
I did this to test the randomness of randint:
>>> from random import randint
>>>
>>> uniques = []
>>> for i in range(4500): # You can see I optimistic.
... x = randint(500, 5000)
... if x in uniques:
... raise Exception('We duped ' + str(x) + ' at iteration number ' + str(i))
... uniques.append(x)
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "(stdin)", line 4, in (module)
Exception: 'We duped 4061 at iteration number 67
I tried about 10 times more and the best result I got was 121 iterations before a repeater. Is this the best sort of result you can get from the standard library?
