Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
Not every one line expression needs to be a function in a library.
`bool(getrandbits(1))` is self-explanatory enough, and it is doubtful that any
implementation would be faster.
Using getrandbits(1) to return 0 or 1 is fine; if you need a bool, call bool on
the result.
Aside: the name getrandbits is a bit sad, there's no setrandbits and we don't
name the other random functions with a leading "get" prefix:
getrandint(1, 6)
Raymond, would you consider providing an alias randbits and depreciating the
getrandbits name? We don't have to remove it, just document it as depreciated
to be removed in Python 5000 :-)
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