Python's random: What happens if I don't use seed(someValue)?

"Use the Source, Luke!"...;-). Studying https://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Lib/random.py will rapidly reassure you;-).

What happens when seed isn't set (that's the "i is None" case):

if a is None:
    try:
        a = long(_hexlify(_urandom(16)), 16)
    except NotImplementedError:
        import time
        a = long(time.time() * 256) # use fractional seconds

and the expovariate:

random = self.random
u = random()
while u <= 1e-7:
    u = random()
return -_log(u)/lambd

obviously uses the same underlying random generator as every other method, and so is identically affected by the seeding or lack thereof (really, how else would it have been done?-)