[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

Change by Raymond Hettinger : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 08ec80113b3b7f7a9eaa3d217494536b63305181 by Zackery Spytz in branch 'main': bpo-46737: Add default arguments to random.gauss and normalvariate (GH-31360) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/08ec80113b3b7f7a9eaa3d217494536b63305181

[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

Zackery Spytz added the comment: I have created a patch for this issue. Please consider having a look. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

Change by Zackery Spytz : -- keywords: +patch nosy: +ZackerySpytz nosy_count: 2.0 -> 3.0 pull_requests: +29510 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/31360 ___ Python tracker

[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

Mark Dickinson added the comment: +1 -- nosy: +mark.dickinson ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

New submission from Raymond Hettinger : This is really minor, but it would convenient if we provided default arguments: random.gauss(mu=0.0, sigma=1.0) random.normalvariate(mu=0.0, sigma=1.0) -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 413177 nosy: rhettinger priority: normal