On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Charles R Harris < charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal < > chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > >> What does the standard lib do for rand range? I see that randint Is >> closed on both ends, so order doesn't matter, though if it raises for b<a, >> then that's a precedent we could follow. >> > > randint is not closed on the high end. The now deprecated random_integers > is the function that does that. > > For floats, it's good to have various interval options. For instance, in > generating numbers that will be inverted or have their log taken it is good > to avoid zero. However, the names 'low' and 'high' are misleading... > > Note that we also have both arange and linspace for floats. What works well for integers is not always the best for floats. Chuck
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