New submission from Charles Newey :
The Python 3 documentation for the "random" module mentions two possible ways
to generate a random variate drawn from a normal distribution - "random.gauss"
and "random.normalvariate" (see:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/ra
Charles Newey added the comment:
@David I have no idea either (no having written much of that sort of code
myself either), but that looks more sensible.
I'm just nitpicking really, anyway.
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Charles Newey added the comment:
Your point about using "pass" with the "with" statement sounds like a better
example than using "pass" in a loop.
Perhaps even something like adding a note to the example to clarify it:
"""
# Don't use this in
New submission from Charles Newey:
URL: https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/controlflow.html#pass-statements
Quoted verbatim:
"""
The pass statement does nothing. It can be used when a statement is required
syntactically but the program requires no action. For example:
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