From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:56:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New comment block to Clarify a subtlety.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a2~144
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=715c4c412b21f68ad59773698d06eea8eb0c5a44;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

New comment block to Clarify a subtlety.
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diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
index baebdf0474d5..b9359e48120d 100644
--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -596,7 +596,11 @@ def _test(N=200):
     if r1 != r2:
         raise ValueError("jumpahead test failed " + `(N, r1, r2)`)
 
-# Initialize from current time.
+# Create one instance, seeded from current time, and export its methods
+# as module-level functions.  The functions are not threadsafe, and state
+# is shared across all uses (both in the user's code and in the Python
+# libraries), but that's fine for most programs and is easier for the
+# casual user than making them instantiate their own Random() instance.
 _inst = Random()
 seed = _inst.seed
 random = _inst.random