Re: [Python-Dev] random.jumpback?

[Skip Montanaro]

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I was adding __all__ to the random module and I noticed this very unpythonic example in the module docstring:

>>> g = Random(42) # arbitrary >>> g.random() 0.25420336316883324 >>> g.jumpahead(6953607871644L - 1) # move *back* one >>> g.random() 0.25420336316883324

[Tim]

Did you miss the sentence preceding the example, starting "Just for fun"?

In that vein, the example isn't compatible with doctest, is it? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)