On Thursday, February 11, 2016 7:20 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote:
> 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. :-) +1 > For that matter, restore Wichmann-Hill. So you can write code that works on 2.3 and 3.6, but not 3.5? I agree that it shouldn't have gone away, but I think it may be too late for adding it back to help too much. > Both should be clearly marked as "use only for reproducing previous > bitstreams" (eg, in a package random.deprecated_generators). I like the random.deprecated_generators idea. _______________________________________________ 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