> 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?
On 8/15/2009 4:26 PM Carl Banks apparently wrote: > random.gauss is not thread safe. > > I'm kind of surprised the html docs don't mention this; the docstring > does. Thank you, Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
