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.
choice(range(start, stop, step)) but faster. This addresses the
problem that randint() was accidentally defined as taking an inclusive
range (how unpythonic).
The code is longish because Tim Peters insisted that it reject
non-integral arguments while I insisted that it be not much slower
than randint(); the compromise satisfies both but is somewhat
convoluted.
Also changed randint() to be implemented through randrange(). This is
a semantic change because old randint() didn't test its arguments for
validity. (It also makes randrange() win any contest with randint()
:-)
First, the RNG in whrandom.py sucks if you let it seed itself from the time.
The problem is the line:
t = int((t&0xffffff) | (t>>24))
Since it ORs the two parts together, the resulting value has mostly
ON bits. Change | to ^, and you don't lose any randomness.
urllib.py: '+' is not always safe (even though the RFC says so :-( )
whrandom.py: throw away top bits of time to avoid overflow on Mac
(where times can be negative)
constructors. There is no backward compatibility. Not everything has
been tested.
* aiff.{py,doc}: deleted in favor of aifc.py (which contains its docs as
comments)
* Fixed calendar.py, mimetools.py, whrandom.py to cope with time.time()
returning a floating point number. (And fix old bug in calendar)
* Add recursion level to mainloop.mainloop(), to make it reentrant.
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum