[Python-Dev] Backward-incompatible change to random.randrange in 2.7.6

[Guido van Rossum]

This really seems a case of ZODB depending on internals where it
really, really should have known better. Calling this "a de-facto
public interface" seems way too far a stretch of the intention. And
please don't fix it by version-testing and using a different argument
name...

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Tres.
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