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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Generating a POSIX random number? Post 302977481 by wisecracker on Tuesday 19th of July 2016 04:39:06 AM

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Hi Don...

Thanks for the info, it is all logged down in the old grey matter for future use.

As for while(1) I assumed that it was filling up a buffer of some kind but never guessed that it was the pipe, | , that it was filling up.
Clever idea that one. (I love lateral thinking.)

I assumed also - like in Python - that while(1) is the equivalent of while(True): . Both (1) and (True) are valid in Python even in Python's latest guise.
Python has not deprecated the (1) which goes back to the start of the Python project.

LBNL, I got the idea of my original ugly code from the WWW from many sources and no-one considered that '/dev/urandom' was NOT in the POSIX specifications. Even the WWW can give answers that are effectively false, so......

......I now consider this thread _solved_ and thanks again Don, you saved the day.

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NAME

       python-coverage - measure code coverage of Python program execution

SYNOPSIS

       python-coverage -x module.py [ARG...]
       python-coverage -e
       python-coverage -r [-m]
       python-coverage -a [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       python-coverage	executes  a Python program and measures which of its statements are executed and which are not.  It stores the information
       in the file .coverage in the current working directory.

OPTIONS

       -e     Erase the .coverage file.

       -x     Execute a Python module, giving it the remaining command line arguments.

       -r     Produce a coverage report.

       -m     With -r, show the line numbers that were missed by the execution.

       -a     Annotate source files.  For each source file foo, produce foo,cover, with executed lines prefixed by ">" and non-executed by "!".

       --help Produce a help summary.  It might be more helpful than this manual page.

AUTHOR

       The python-coverage command is a one-line Python script which calls the coverage.py Python module to do all the work.  The module was rigi-
       nally developed by Gareth Rees, and is now developed by Ned Batchelder.	The module's home page is
       http://www.nedbatchelder.com/code/modules/coverage.html.

       This manual page was cobbled together by Lars Wirzenius for Debian, by copy-pasting from the help texts from the module.

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