[Python-ideas] Python's Source of Randomness and the random.py module Redux

[Nick Coghlan]

On 11 September 2015 at 13:18, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Personally, I think we're done with that change.  Deprecation of the names random.Random, random.random(), etc. is sufficient to prevent people from making mistakes without realizing it.

Implementing dice rolling or number guessing for a game as "from
random import randint" is *not* a mistake, and I'm adamantly opposed
to any proposal that makes it one - the cost imposed on educational
use cases would be far too high.

Regards,
Nick.

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