I think the extra 9 characters of "_probable" are worth the extra accuracy.
Dont teach people to lie in their function names. It's a bad example. and if you really want to lie, just from imath import is_probably_prime as is_prime 2018-07-13 14:44 GMT+02:00 Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be>: > On 2018-07-13 14:11, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> What it *actually* does is: >> >> >> is_almost_certainly_prime_except_for_a_ludicrously_microscopic_chance_of_error_thousands_of_times_less_likely_than_a_stray_cosmic_ray_flipping_a_bit_in_memory_and_causing_the_wrong_result_to_be_returned() > > > That's just a long variant of is_probable_prime() > >> If your bank is satisfied with "mere probable prime number" to transfer >> billions of dollars around the world, then I'm sure that the users of >> Python's std library should be too. > > > That's besides the point. I agree that probable primes are good enough, just > don't call them "prime". > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
