Brian Gladman <b...@gladman.plus.com> writes:
>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 03:26:46AM +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I hence support your conclusion that the module should offer randbelow
> alone. I would oppose offering randomrange (or offering more than one
> of them) since this will pretty well guarantee that, sooner or later,
> someone will make a mistake in using the extra functionality and
> possibly deploy an insecure application as a result.
>
> Brian Gladman
Plus if someone really does want randrange, they can simply do this:
def randfrom(seq):
return seq[randbelow(len(seq))]
def randrange(start, stop, step=None):
randfrom(range(start, stop, step))
These are simple recipes that probably don't belong in the module.
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