[issue19055] Regular expressions: * does not match as many repetitions as possible.

2013-09-19 Thread David Benbennick
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[issue18928] Remove misleading documentation for random.shuffle

2013-09-04 Thread David Benbennick
David Benbennick added the comment: Okay, I see what the comment is saying now. I was mistaken. It might make the statement clearer if it is made more precise. "rather small" is vague. That vagueness is intentional, but it makes it more confusing. -- status: open

[issue18928] Remove misleading documentation for random.shuffle

2013-09-04 Thread David Benbennick
New submission from David Benbennick: Since Python 2.1 [1], when random.shuffle was added, the documentation has said: """Note that for even rather small len(x), the total number of permutations of x is larger than the period of most random number generators; this imp