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Tim Peters bcd725fc45 Repaired a docstring. 2001-02-01 10:06:53 +00:00
Tim Peters 0de88fc4b1 Change random.seed() so that it can get at the full range of possible
internal states.  Put the old .seed() (which could only get at about
the square root of the # of possibilities) under the new name .whseed(),
for bit-level compatibility with older versions.  This occurred to me
while reviewing effbot's book (he found himself stumbling over .seed()
more than once there ...).
2001-02-01 04:59:18 +00:00
Tim Peters 715c4c412b New comment block to Clarify a subtlety. 2001-01-26 22:56:56 +00:00
Tim Peters e360d9507a The combo of getstate/setstate/jumpahead is very powerful, but needs
examples to flesh it out for the uninitiated.  Here they are.
2001-01-26 10:00:39 +00:00
Tim Peters 85e2e4742d SF bug 130030: Claim of bad betavariate algorithm. 2001-01-26 06:49:56 +00:00
Tim Peters cd80410854 Cosmetic changes after some sleep; no change in semantics. 2001-01-25 20:25:57 +00:00
Tim Peters d52269bfd0 Fix bugs introduced by rewrite (in particular, time-based initialization
got broken).  Also added new method .jumpahead(N).  This finally gives us
a semi-decent answer to how Python's RNGs can be used safely and efficiently
in multithreaded programs (although it requires the user to use the new
machinery!).
2001-01-25 06:23:18 +00:00
Tim Peters d7b5e88e8e Reworked random.py so that it no longer depends on, and offers all the
functionality of, whrandom.py.  Also closes all the "XXX" todos in
random.py.  New frequently-requested functions/methods getstate() and
setstate().  All exported functions are now bound methods of a hidden
instance.  Killed all unintended exports.  Updated the docs.
FRED:  The more I fiddle the docs, the less I understand the exact
intended use of the \var, \code, \method tags.  Please review critically.
GUIDO:  See email.  I updated NEWS as if whrandom were deprecated; I
think it should be.
2001-01-25 03:36:26 +00:00
Tim Peters 0c9886d589 Whitespace normalization. 2001-01-15 01:18:21 +00:00
Tim Peters c1d65c34cf Repair senseless random.seed docstring (reported on c.l.py). 2000-09-16 04:02:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e7b146fb3b The third and final doc-string sweep by Ka-Ping Yee.
The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.

A new docstring was added to formatter.  The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.
2000-02-04 15:28:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6c395ba316 Add Tim Peters' shuffle() algorithm. 1999-08-18 13:53:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3357561476 Added randrange to list of exported functions. 1998-07-31 13:40:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d03e1197cb Make gauss() semi-thread-safe. It can still give duplicate results,
but it can no longer raise an exception when called by several threads
simultaneously.
1998-05-29 17:51:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 33d7f1a76c Add Interfaces to replace remaining needs for importing whrandom.
# XXX TO DO: make the distribution functions below into methods.
1998-05-20 16:28:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5810297052 Correction to vonmisesvariate() by Magnus Kessler: it should take and
return something between 0 and 2*pi.  Also added a reference to the
literature.
1998-04-06 14:12:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 72c2e1b56e Fixed a bug in the gauss() function. The bug was reported by Mike
Miller, who complained that its kurtosis was bad, and then fixed by
Lambert Meertens (author of the original algorithm) who discovered
that the mathematical analysis leading to his solution was wrong, and
provided a corrected version.  Mike then tested the fix and reported
that the kurtosis was now good.
1998-02-19 21:17:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5bdea89c89 # Typos in the comments giving the names of two recently added distributions. 1997-12-09 19:43:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cf4559a62e Added Pareto and Weibull distributions, courtesy Jeremy Hylton. 1997-12-02 02:47:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2922c6dabb Changes to use default argument values where possible 1994-05-06 14:28:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cc32ac9704 Use float constants directly; cosmetic changes; initialize largest
correctly; allow test(N) to set number of calls in the tests.
1994-03-15 16:10:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 95bfcda3e0 Added gauss() (same as normal but twice as fast) and betavariate();
print more statistics in test_generator()
1994-03-09 14:21:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ff03b1ae5b Random variable generators 1994-03-09 12:55:02 +00:00