[Raymond Hettinger] > I think the note is still useful, but the "rather small" wording > should be replaced by something most precise (such as the > value of n=len(x) where n! > 2**19997).
Note that I already removed it, and I'm not putting it back. The period of W-H was "so short" you could get into trouble, based on period alone, with a list of only 16 elements. The Twister is so much more capable in respect of both period and high-dimensional equidistribution properties that I think anyone sophisticated enough to _understand_ an accurate warning correctly would have no need to be warned. Everyone else would find it a mix of confusing and scary, to no real end. None of this is to say it couldn't be useful to have a digestible introduction to issues raised by use of deterministic PRNGs. But I don't think that one note in one docstring is actually "better than nothing" in that regard ;-) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
