Mark Dickinson added the comment: The message for changeset r6370f1593c72 (which introduced the incorrect code) confirms the intentions. I'll apply this patch shortly.
iwasawa:cpython mdickinson$ hg log -v -r6370f1593c72 changeset: 7881:6370f1593c72 branch: legacy-trunk user: Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> date: Mon Apr 06 14:12:13 1998 +0000 files: Lib/random.py description: Correction to vonmisesvariate() by Magnus Kessler: it should take and return something between 0 and 2*pi. Also added a reference to the literature. ---------- assignee: -> mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17149> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com