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| author | Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> | 2018-04-17 15:16:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-04-17 15:16:17 (GMT) |
| commit | ba3a87aca37cec5b1ee32cf68f4a254fa0bb2bec (patch) | |
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| parent | 28e8b66d6c632552765b5fb4573b7f3c9decc3c1 (diff) | |
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bpo-33144: random.Random and subclasses: split _randbelow implementation (GH-6291)
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-10-14-50-30.bpo-33144.iZr4et.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-10-14-50-30.bpo-33144.iZr4et.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb6b9b7f --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-10-14-50-30.bpo-33144.iZr4et.rst @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +``random.Random()`` and its subclassing mechanism got optimized to check only +once at class/subclass instantiation time whether its ``getrandbits()`` method +can be relied on by other methods, including ``randrange()``, for the +generation of arbitrarily large random integers. Patch by Wolfgang Maier. |