On Sep 24, 10:38 am, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano
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> > If you want unbiased, random (or at least pseudo-random) integers chosen
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On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano
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> Chris Angelico wrote:
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> If you want unbiased, random (or at least pseudo-random) integers chosen
> from an uniform distribution with proper error checking, you should use
> randint or randrange.
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> "I only need random-ish ints, but I nee
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> If you want unbiased, random (or at least pseudo-random) integers chosen
> from an uniform distribution with proper error checking, you should use
> randint or randrange.
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>> but if you just
>> want a pile of more-or-less random integer
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Steven D'Aprano
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>> What makes you think it's in C? I don't have Python 3.3a, but in 3.2 the
>> random module is mostly Python. There is an import of _random, which
>> presumably is in C, but it doesn't have a randint method:
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Steven D'Aprano
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> What makes you think it's in C? I don't have Python 3.3a, but in 3.2 the
> random module is mostly Python. There is an import of _random, which
> presumably is in C, but it doesn't have a randint method:
True. It seems to be defined in cpy
Chris Angelico wrote:
> The standard library function random.randint() seems to be quite slow
> compared to random.random(), and worse in Python 3 than Python 2
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> But this still doesn't explain why randint() is so much slower. In
> theory, randint() should be doing basically the same thing t
The standard library function random.randint() seems to be quite slow
compared to random.random(), and worse in Python 3 than Python 2
(specifically that's 3.3a0 latest from Mercurial, and 2.6.6 that came
default on my Ubuntu install).
My test involves building a list of one million random integer
