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authorRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2022-12-15 18:40:45 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-12-15 18:40:45 (GMT)
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GH-100234: Set a default value for random.expovariate() (GH-100235)
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-rw-r--r--Lib/random.py2
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_random.py1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
index c70294e..e60b729 100644
--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ class Random(_random.Random):
"""
return _exp(self.normalvariate(mu, sigma))
- def expovariate(self, lambd):
+ def expovariate(self, lambd=1.0):
"""Exponential distribution.
lambd is 1.0 divided by the desired mean. It should be
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_random.py b/Lib/test/test_random.py
index 1e825c35..67de54c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_random.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_random.py
@@ -988,6 +988,7 @@ class TestDistributions(unittest.TestCase):
g.random = x[:].pop; g.uniform(1,10)
g.random = x[:].pop; g.paretovariate(1.0)
g.random = x[:].pop; g.expovariate(1.0)
+ g.random = x[:].pop; g.expovariate()
g.random = x[:].pop; g.weibullvariate(1.0, 1.0)
g.random = x[:].pop; g.vonmisesvariate(1.0, 1.0)
g.random = x[:].pop; g.normalvariate(0.0, 1.0)