[Python-ideas] Re: Fwd: Optional kwarg for sequence methods in random module

2019-08-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Senhaji Rhazi hamza writes: > I think there is a way to map x <- [1; + inf] to y <- [0;1] by > putting y = 1/x I don't think that's the point. I'll put money on a poor choice of value for the random parameter in the example: the OP chose the Pareto variate because that's what he mentioned earl

[Python-ideas] Adding support for adequately tagging AIX (pep425) to support distributed wheels

2019-08-19 Thread Michael
Goal - using wheels rather than RPM and/or installp formats for distributing binary modules Why bother? One reason (there are likely more) - using wheels means packages/modules can be loaded in a virtualenv rather than require they are first loaded in the system environment using installp/rpm/yum

[Python-ideas] Re: Fwd: Optional kwarg for sequence methods in random module

2019-08-19 Thread Senhaji Rhazi hamza
Hey Steven, Thank you for having taken the time to comment qualitatively my response. For the first part : I think there is a way to map x <- [1; + inf] to y <- [0;1] by putting y = 1/x I didn't pay attention of the fact stated by @Richard Damon that the shape of distribution won't be preserv

[Python-ideas] Re: [Distutils] Linux binary wheels?

2019-08-19 Thread Wes Turner
How does this proposal differ from manylinux2010? https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/blob/master/README.rst#example PEP 513: manylinux1 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0513/ PEP 571: The manylinux2010 Platform Tag (latest, as of 2019) https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0571/ On Monday, Au