New submission from Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com>: The documentation for random.uniform() was recently updated to reflect the fact that it's possible for random.uniform(a, b) to produce the value b; see issue 4979.
In a recent c.l.p. thread, Robert Kern suggested that 'it might be confusing to a user why random.random() returns values in a half-open interval while random.uniform() claims a closed interval'; the thread itself confirms this potential for confusion. See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-June/715851.html Suggested extra wording for random.uniform, from Robert Kern: "Due to floating point arithmetic, for some values of a and b, b may or may not be one of the possible generated results." ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 89232 nosy: georg.brandl, marketdickinson severity: normal status: open title: Clarify behaviour of random.uniform versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6261> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
