From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:20:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Change the default seeding -- use 8 bits of sub-second precision and
X-Git-Tag: v1.4~74
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9cb018e693bde93ef8c19142299b39ed273f157e;p=python

Change the default seeding -- use 8 bits of sub-second precision and
fold in the higest 8 bits of the time as well.
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diff --git a/Lib/whrandom.py b/Lib/whrandom.py
index 8ed39c923c..3cc15323b5 100644
--- a/Lib/whrandom.py
+++ b/Lib/whrandom.py
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ class whrandom:
 		if 0 == x == y == z:
 			# Initialize from current time
 			import time
-			t = int(time.time() % 0x80000000)
+			t = long(time.time() * 256)
+			t = int((t&0xffffff) | (t>>24))
 			t, x = divmod(t, 256)
 			t, y = divmod(t, 256)
 			t, z = divmod(t, 256)