Hi. seed with no arguments fails with something about too many open files.
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Can you provide a bit more info about what you were doing, and what the error was?
harry
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Hi. You should see the error if you write and run this program in Python 3:
from random import seed
seed()
That works fine for me. Exactly what error message are you seeing?
Did you run it in Python 3?
OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files
I just tried it in Python 3.3.6 and in 3.4.0 -- no errors in either case.
The random.seed() function may well be trying to access a file (the best source of random numbers in Linux is the pseudo-file /dev/random) so you might get that error if you had a very large number of files open in your process through some other code in your process. Were you running this code as part of a larger script?
