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  • \$\begingroup\$ How did you find that? It also works for me in Python 2.6.6 on linux. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Aug 5, 2011 at 2:42
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    \$\begingroup\$ Good to hear! I wrote a small bruteforcing tool to determine how you need to seed the random module to get a certain sequence. With a three-character sequence, this doesn't take too long - this script joins together two three-letter sequences to get "PYTHON" :) \$\endgroup\$ Commented Aug 15, 2011 at 13:24
  • \$\begingroup\$ The rest is using list comprehensions and other dirty tricks to get it to fit it in one line. You can find the bruteforcing tool here :) \$\endgroup\$ Commented Aug 15, 2011 at 13:30
  • \$\begingroup\$ And it works on my Python 3.1.2 (adding parentheses after print, of course). \$\endgroup\$ Commented Aug 16, 2011 at 20:18
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    \$\begingroup\$ Almost there: generateSentence(50613, 73)[66:] gives 'PYTHOCN'. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Aug 16, 2011 at 20:45