Sept. 21, 2015
11:32 p.m.
On 9/21/2015 12:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 09:00:08AM +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
randbelow() is just an alias for randrange() with single argument. randint(a, b) == randrange(a, b+1).
These functions are redundant and they have non-zero cost.
But they already exist in the random module, so adding them to secrets doesn't cost anything extra.
I think the redundancy in random is a mistake. The cost is confusion and extra memory load, and there need to more ofter refer to the manual, for essentially zero gain. When I read two names, I expect them to do two different things. The question is whether to propagate the mistake to a new module. -- Terry Jan Reedy