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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-06-30 19:33:35 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-06-30 19:33:35 (GMT)
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Line-wrap and properly indent a couple of docstrings.
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-rw-r--r--Lib/whrandom.py9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/whrandom.py b/Lib/whrandom.py
index 8cc1650..f43b2f9 100644
--- a/Lib/whrandom.py
+++ b/Lib/whrandom.py
@@ -82,7 +82,9 @@ class whrandom:
return a + (b-a) * self.random()
def randint(self, a, b):
- """Get a random integer in the range [a, b] including both end points.
+ """Get a random integer in the range [a, b] including
+ both end points.
+
(Deprecated; use randrange below.)"""
return self.randrange(a, b+1)
@@ -91,10 +93,11 @@ class whrandom:
return seq[int(self.random() * len(seq))]
def randrange(self, start, stop=None, step=1, int=int, default=None):
- """Choose a random item from range([start,] step[, stop]).
+ """Choose a random item from range(start, stop[, step]).
+
This fixes the problem with randint() which includes the
endpoint; in Python this is usually not what you want.
- Do not supply the 'int' and 'default' arguments."""
+ Do not supply the 'int' and 'default' arguments."""
# This code is a bit messy to make it fast for the
# common case while still doing adequate error checking
istart = int(start)