The whrandom Module
The whrandom module, shown in Example 2-33, provides a pseudo-random number generator (based on an algorithm by Wichmann and Hill, 1982). Unless you need several generators that do not share internal state (for example, in a multithreaded application), it's better to use the functions in the random module instead.
Example 2-33. Using the whrandom Module
File: whrandom-example-1.py import whrandom # same as random print whrandom.random() print whrandom.choice([1, 2, 3, 5, 9]) print whrandom.uniform(10, 20) print whrandom.randint(100, 1000) 0.113412062346 1 16.8778954689 799
Example 2-34 shows how to create multiple generators by creating instances of the whrandom class.
Example 2-34. Using the whrandom Module to Create Multiple Random Generators
File: whrandom-example-2.py
import whrandom
# initialize all generators with the same seed
rand1 = whrandom.whrandom(4,7,11)
rand2 = whrandom.whrandom(4,7,11)
rand3 = whrandom.whrandom(4,7,11)
for i in range(5):
print rand1.random(), rand2.random(), rand3.random()
0.123993532536 0.123993532536 0.123993532536
0.180951499518 0.180951499518 0.180951499518
0.291924111809 0.291924111809 0.291924111809
0.952048889363 0.952048889363 0.952048889363
0.969794283643 0.969794283643 0.969794283643
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