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

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Wed Dec 18 18:22:18 CET 2013


On Dec 18, 2013 11:54 AM, "Tim Peters" <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:

> [Daniel Holth]
> > But who could forget njzrs' wasp UAV software line 107, using
> > int=float?
> https://github.com/nzjrs/wasp/blob/master/sw/groundstation/wasp/__init__.py#L107
>
> I could forget it ;-)  The remarkable thing about the two instances of:
>
>      random.randrange(0.0,1.0, int=float)
>
> in that file is that they're obscure and inefficient ways to spell:
>
>      random.random()
>

You can keep your "premature optimizations" thank you :-)
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