I dont feel anything wrong with it, but I'm also not native speaker. On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Hynek Schlawack wrote:

Am 16.10.2012 um 12:15 schrieb andrew.svetlov :

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+ For easy to use interface to system randomness please see + :class:`random.SystemRandom`.

Is it just my non-native speaker ears, or should there be an “an” before “easy”? _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list Python-checkins@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-checkins

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Am 16.10.2012 12:43, schrieb Larry Hastings:

On 10/16/2012 11:23 AM, Hynek Schlawack wrote:

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Am 16.10.2012 um 12:15 schrieb andrew.svetlov :

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+ For easy to use interface to system randomness please see + :class:`random.SystemRandom`. Is it just my non-native speaker ears, or should there be an “an” before “easy”?

There should. And "for system randomness" is hard to follow. I would have written it as

For an easy-to-use interface to the random number generator provided by your platform, please see :class:`random.SystemRandom`.

I don't like the phrase "easy-to-use" at all. IMO it can't get any easier than "give my X random bytes". random.SystemRandom is simply a high level interface that is mostly compatible with the random module.

On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:52:25 +0200 Christian Heimes wrote:

Am 16.10.2012 12:43, schrieb Larry Hastings:

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On 10/16/2012 11:23 AM, Hynek Schlawack wrote:

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Am 16.10.2012 um 12:15 schrieb andrew.svetlov :

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+ For easy to use interface to system randomness please see + :class:`random.SystemRandom`. Is it just my non-native speaker ears, or should there be an “an” before “easy”?

There should. And "for system randomness" is hard to follow. I would have written it as

For an easy-to-use interface to the random number generator provided by your platform, please see :class:`random.SystemRandom`.

I don't like the phrase "easy-to-use" at all. IMO it can't get any easier than "give my X random bytes". random.SystemRandom is simply a high level interface that is mostly compatible with the random module.

I guess it's easy to use if you need something other than raw bytes. But, yes, I would call it "higher level" rather than "easy to use" (I don't think there's a need for hyphens, by the way). Regards Antoine. -- Software development and contracting: http://pro.pitrou.net

On 2012-10-16 12:59, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Antoine Pitrou writes:

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But, yes, I would call it "higher level" rather than "easy to use" (I don't think there's a need for hyphens, by the way).

You don't need them to get the point across, but elderly grammar pedants will think better of you if you use the hyphens.

Personally, I hope they'll be used. +1

I'm tired of the assumption that "illiterate techie" is a redundant phrase.