[Patches] A bug fix to betavariate() in random.py

[Janne Sinkkonen]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> def beta(a, b):
>     x1 = gamma(a)
>     if x1 == 0.0: return 0.0
>     else: return x1/(x1+gamma(b))

Testing for zero seems to be there to prevent problems in the unlikely
situation that gamma returns zero for both arguments.  I was unable to
make random.gammavarite(a,1) return zero, and matlab does not test for
zero, but maybe it's safest to leave the test in.

-- 
Janne