Steven D'Aprano writes: > Peters has an opinion?) but if we do change, I'd like to see the > existing random.Random moved to random.MT_Random for backwards > compatibility and compatibility with other software which uses MT. Not > necessarily saying that we have to keep it around forever (after all, we > did dump the Wichmann-Hill PRNG some time ago) but we ought to keep it > for at least a couple of releases.
I think we should keep it around forever. Even my slowest colleagues are learning that they should record their seeds and PRNG algorithms for reproducibility's sake. :-) For that matter, restore Wichmann-Hill. Both should be clearly marked as "use only for reproducing previous bitstreams" (eg, in a package random.deprecated_generators). _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
