On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > Of course it is. Those things constitute doc bugs which need to get > fixed. The fact that the specification is flawed does not change the > fact that it *is* the specification.
Also, the specification is what can be trusted across multiple implementations of Python - the source can't. I don't intend to get the source code to five Pythons to ascertain whether getrandbits() is provided in the default random.Random() of each of them. Now, in this particular instance, it IS stated in the docs - just down in the individual function descriptions, which I hadn't read - so I almost certainly CAN trust that across all platforms. But in the general case, I would not want to make firm statements on the basis of implementation details. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
