On 20.09.15 02:40, Tim Peters wrote:
No attempt to be minimal here. More-than-less "obvious" is more important:
Bound methods of a SystemRandom instance .randrange() .randint() .randbits() renamed from .getrandbits() .randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound) renamed from private ._randbelow() .choice()
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. Would not renaming getrandbits be confused?
Token functions .token_bytes(nbytes) another name for os.urandom() .token_hex(nbytes) same, but return string of ASCII hex digits .token_url(nbytes) same, but return URL-safe base64-encoded ASCII .token_alpha(alphabet, nchars) string of `nchars` characters drawn uniformly from `alphabet`
token_hex(nbytes) == token_alpha('0123456789abcdef', nchars) ? token_url(nbytes) == token_alpha( 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_', nchars) ?