Mailman 3 Backward-incompatible change to random.randrange in 2.7.6 - Python-Dev

18 Dec 2013

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http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b1e94e332ec8

Do we really want to change an undocumented-but-effectively-public API in
a late-in-the-release-cycle third dot release?  It caused, ZODB's tests
to fail, for instance.

While the docstring said, "Don't use the 'int', 'default', and 'maxwidth'
arguments", their names were not intrinsically private.  In particular,
passing in the 'int' argument was a strategy for generating compatible
long values when straddling Python 2.x / Python 3.x.

Tres.
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Backward-incompatible change to random.randrange in 2.7.6

Tres Seaver

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