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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2010-09-07 04:44:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2010-09-07 04:44:52 (GMT) |
| commit | 0515661314c4e5b9235e07b2c46b8f456c7fadc3 (patch) | |
| tree | b8f06b2f3a9d5f9d99b91de02052f9bf38f6aff7 /Doc/library/random.rst | |
| parent | 3051cc3a0d390ba153c07db9ce31a44700e332f2 (diff) | |
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Issues #7889, #9025 and #9379: Improvements to the random module.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst index 270518c..c690eea 100644 --- a/Doc/library/random.rst +++ b/Doc/library/random.rst @@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ Functions for integers: equivalent to ``choice(range(start, stop, step))``, but doesn't actually build a range object. + The positional argument pattern matches that of :func:`range`. Keyword arguments + should not be used because the function may use them in unexpected ways. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.2 + :meth:`randrange` is more sophisticated about producing equally distributed + values. Formerly it used a style like ``int(random()*n)`` which could produce + slightly uneven distributions. .. function:: randint(a, b) |