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authorAnders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>2024-09-12 13:54:18 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2024-09-12 13:54:18 (GMT)
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gh-123968: Fix lower bound for `python -m random --float` (#123971)
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-rw-r--r--Lib/random.py6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
index f5a482b..8b9a270 100644
--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ def _parse_args(arg_list: list[str] | None):
help="print a random integer between 1 and N inclusive")
group.add_argument(
"-f", "--float", type=float, metavar="N",
- help="print a random floating-point number between 1 and N inclusive")
+ help="print a random floating-point number between 0 and N inclusive")
group.add_argument(
"--test", type=int, const=10_000, nargs="?",
help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ def main(arg_list: list[str] | None = None) -> int | str:
return randint(1, args.integer)
if args.float is not None:
- return uniform(1, args.float)
+ return uniform(0, args.float)
if args.test:
_test(args.test)
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ def main(arg_list: list[str] | None = None) -> int | str:
try:
# Is it a float?
val = float(val)
- return uniform(1, val)
+ return uniform(0, val)
except ValueError:
# Split in case of space-separated string: "a b c"
return choice(val.split())