[Numpy-discussion] Behavior of np.random.uniform

[Peter Creasey]

+1 for the deprecation warning for low>high, I think the cases where
that is called are more likely to be unintentional rather than someone
trying to use uniform(closed_end, open_end) and you might help users
find bugs -  i.e. the idioms of ‘explicit is better than implicit’ and
‘fail early and fail loudly’ apply.

I would also point out that requiring open vs closed intervals (in
doubles) is already an extremely specialised use case. In terms of
*sampling the reals*, there is no difference between the intervals
(a,b) and [a,b], because the endpoints have measure 0, and even with
double-precision arithmetic, you are going to have to make several
petabytes of random data before you hit an endpoint...

Peter