On Aug 15, 12:49 pm, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote: > Quotinghttp://docs.python.org/3.1/library/random.html#random.gauss: > Gaussian distribution. mu is the mean, and sigma is the > standard deviation. This is slightly faster than the > normalvariate() function defined below. > > So since both are offered and gauss is faster, I assume it > must have some offsetting disadvantage. What is it?
random.gauss is not thread safe. I'm kind of surprised the html docs don't mention this; the docstring does. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
