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100 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Raymond Hettinger 3cde3788b6
bpo-39108: Document threading issues for random.gauss() (GH-22928) 2020-10-25 07:59:01 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger b67cbbda3a
Minor clarification (GH-22708) 2020-10-14 23:41:55 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger f2bd04f689
Improve recipe readability (GH-22685) 2020-10-13 16:41:26 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 8b2ff4c03d
Add recipe for a version of random() with a larger population (GH-22664) 2020-10-13 11:54:21 -07:00
Ram Rachum b0dfc75816
bpo-41773: Raise exception for non-finite weights in random.choices(). (GH-22441) 2020-09-28 18:32:10 -07:00
Andre Delfino e8a2076e14
Revert "Fix all Python Cookbook links (#22205)" (GH-22424)
This commit reverts commit ac0333e1e1 as the original links are working again and they provide extended features such as comments and alternative versions.
2020-09-27 01:47:25 +01:00
Andre Delfino ac0333e1e1
Fix all Python Cookbook links (#22205) 2020-09-15 21:13:26 +01:00
Raymond Hettinger e16d2f7c37
Improve output summary in the examples and recipes section (GH-20285) 2020-05-21 01:37:38 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 81a5fc38e8
bpo-40541: Add optional *counts* parameter to random.sample() (GH-19970) 2020-05-08 07:53:15 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger f01d1be97d
bpo-40286: Put methods in correct sections. Add security notice to use secrets for session tokens. (GH-19870) 2020-05-04 22:52:13 -07:00
Mathieu Dupuy 8aab84312e
Fix missing space in docs(GH-19866) 2020-05-02 16:50:47 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 190fac99c5
bpo-40465: Deprecate the optional argument to random.shuffle(). (#19867) 2020-05-02 16:45:32 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger d3a8d616fa
Small improvements to the recipes and examples. (GH-19635)
* Add underscores to long numbers to improve readability
* Use bigger dataset in the bootstrapping example
* Convert single-server queue example to more useful multi-server queue
2020-04-21 16:11:00 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 4fe002045f
bpo-40325: Deprecate set object support in random.sample() (GH-19591) 2020-04-19 00:36:42 -07:00
Antoine Pitrou 75a3378810
bpo-40282: Allow random.getrandbits(0) (GH-19539) 2020-04-17 19:32:14 +02:00
Victor Stinner 9f5fe7910f
bpo-40286: Add randbytes() method to random.Random (GH-19527)
Add random.randbytes() function and random.Random.randbytes()
method to generate random bytes.

Modify secrets.token_bytes() to use SystemRandom.randbytes()
rather than calling directly os.urandom().

Rename also genrand_int32() to genrand_uint32(), since it returns an
unsigned 32-bit integer, not a signed integer.

The _random module is now built with Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE defined.
2020-04-17 19:05:35 +02:00
Julien Palard 58a4054760
Doc: Fix s/pseudo random/pseudo-random/ (GH-18289) 2020-01-31 10:50:14 +01:00
Raymond Hettinger 041d8b48a2
bpo-38881: choices() raises ValueError when all weights are zero (GH-17362) 2019-11-23 02:22:13 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger d0cdeaab76
bpo-32554: Deprecate hashing arbitrary types in random.seed() (GH-15382) 2019-08-22 09:19:36 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 8dbe563aa6
bpo-37624: Document weight assumptions for random.choices() (GH-14855) 2019-07-19 01:56:42 -07:00
Matthias Bussonnier 31e8d69bfe bpo-33783: Use proper class markup for random.Random docs (GHè7817)
Signed-off-by: Matthias Bussonnier <bussonniermatthias@gmail.com>
2019-04-16 18:47:11 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 47d9987247
bpo-35904: Add statistics.fmean() (GH-11892) 2019-02-21 15:06:29 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 9abb725cea Improve readability of random module examples (GH-11884)
Based on reviewer feedback from Allen Downey, convert ``lambda`` to ``def``.
2019-02-15 12:40:18 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 40ebe948e9
Document differences between random.choices() and random.choice(). (GH-11703) 2019-01-30 13:30:20 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 71c62e14aa Neaten-up and extend the examples in the random module docs. 2016-12-04 11:00:34 -08:00
Serhiy Storchaka 0264e46caa Issue #28763: Use double hyphens (rendered as en-dashes) in numerical ranges
in the documentation.
2016-11-26 13:49:59 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka c7b1a0bbe2 Issue #28763: Use double hyphens (rendered as en-dashes) in numerical ranges
in the documentation.
2016-11-26 13:43:28 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 7f94619555 Fix grammar 2016-11-21 15:13:18 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 1149d9326e Add analysis section to motivate the single server queue example 2016-11-21 14:13:07 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger e1329105b3 Misc readability and organization improvements for the random docs 2016-11-21 12:33:50 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 0537405ec1 Add a seealso section for further reference and skill building 2016-11-21 10:52:04 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 8ab1258b58 Simplify code in an example 2016-11-21 10:16:01 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 6befb64172 Extend and improve the examples for the random module 2016-11-21 01:59:39 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger a3950e42b0 Small edits to the docs for sample() and shuffle(). 2016-11-17 01:49:54 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 0a1a909fe2 Further refinements to the examples and recipes for the random module 2016-11-17 00:45:35 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 00305ade58 Add another example to the recipes section of the random docs 2016-11-16 22:56:11 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 2589ee3e2b Minor touch-ups to the random module examples 2016-11-16 21:34:17 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 16ef5d4ae1 Add cum_weights example (simulation of a cumulative binomial distribution). 2016-10-31 22:53:52 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 1c3a121bb0 Issue #18844: Fix-up examples for random.choices(). Remove over-specified test. 2016-10-12 01:42:10 -04:00
Raymond Hettinger 9016f2864a Issue #18844: Make the number of selections a keyword-only argument for random.choices(). 2016-09-26 21:45:57 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger f5b7c7bfc1 Improve recipe by showing results of intermediate steps 2016-09-05 13:15:02 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 16eb827b33 Improve docs for random.seed() 2016-09-04 11:17:28 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 28aa4a0684 Rename weighted_choices() to just choices() 2016-09-07 00:08:44 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger e8f1e002c6 Issue #18844: Add random.weighted_choices() 2016-09-06 17:15:29 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger c7fac12f19 Merge 2016-09-05 13:15:20 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 6579502c7e Merge 2016-09-04 11:17:48 -07:00
Steven D'Aprano b2871faa87 Documentation for secrets.py 2016-04-17 01:42:33 +10:00
Georg Brandl 5d94134040 Closes #25910: fix dead and permanently redirected links in the docs. Thanks to SilentGhost for the patch. 2016-02-26 19:37:12 +01:00
Georg Brandl 92849d1721 Closes #20169: fix inner links random doc. 2016-02-19 08:57:38 +01:00
Raymond Hettinger c89a451ae1 By popular demand, add back a security warning. 2014-05-11 02:26:23 -07:00