Difference between np.random.seed() and np.random.RandomState()

Question

I know that to seed the randomness of numpy.random, and be able to reproduce it, I should us:

import numpy as np
np.random.seed(1234)

but w

Answer 1

random.seed is a method to fill random.RandomState container.

from numpy docs:

numpy.random.seed(seed=None)

Seed the generator.

This method is called when RandomState is initialized. It can be called again to re-seed the generator. For details, see RandomState.

class numpy.random.RandomState

Container for the Mersenne Twister pseudo-random number generator.