Class Random

Lib/random.py:103–882

Random number generator base class used by bound module functions. Used to instantiate instances of Random to get generators that don't share state. Class Random can also be subclassed if you want to use a different basic generator of your own devising: in that case, override the f

class Random(_random.Random):
    """Random number generator base class used by bound module functions.

    Used to instantiate instances of Random to get generators that don't
    share state.

    Class Random can also be subclassed if you want to use a different basic
    generator of your own devising: in that case, override the following
    methods:  random(), seed(), getstate(), and setstate().
    Optionally, implement a getrandbits() method so that randrange()
    can cover arbitrarily large ranges.

    """

    VERSION = 3     # used by getstate/setstate

    def __init__(self, x=None):
        """Initialize an instance.

        Optional argument x controls seeding, as for Random.seed().
        """

        self.seed(x)
        self.gauss_next = None

    def seed(self, a=None, version=2):
        """Initialize internal state from a seed.

        The only supported seed types are None, int, float,
        str, bytes, and bytearray.

        None or no argument seeds from current time or from an operating
        system specific randomness source if available.

        If *a* is an int, all bits are used.

        For version 2 (the default), all of the bits are used if *a* is a str,
        bytes, or bytearray.  For version 1 (provided for reproducing random
        sequences from older versions of Python), the algorithm for str and
        bytes generates a narrower range of seeds.

        """

        if version == 1 and isinstance(a, (str, bytes)):
            a = a.decode('latin-1') if isinstance(a, bytes) else a
            x = ord(a[0]) << 7 if a else 0
            for c in map(ord, a):
                x = ((1000003 * x) ^ c) & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
            x ^= len(a)
            a = -2 if x == -1 else x

        elif version == 2 and isinstance(a, (str, bytes, bytearray)):
            global _sha512
            if _sha512 is None:
                try:
                    # hashlib is pretty heavy to load, try lean internal
                    # module first
                    from _sha2 import sha512 as _sha512