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Title: Comment for random.betavariate is intriguing and incomplete
Type: Stage: resolved
Components: Demos and Tools Versions:
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Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: ezio.melotti Nosy List: ezio.melotti, python-dev, quodlibetor
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Created on 2011-04-15 05:04 by quodlibetor, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg133788 - (view) Author: Brandon W Maister (quodlibetor) Date: 2011-04-15 05:04
The comment just before the random.betavariate method reads in part:

## See
## http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=130030&group_id=5470
## for Ivan Frohne's insightful analysis of why the original implementation:
## (snip original implementation) was dead wrong, and how it propbably got that way.

And I would like to read that comment, but the buglink is pretty deeply dead. I'm not sure what the correct thing to do here is, maybe stick the text of the bug into the comment, or just update the link.

But I'm definitely curious. Thanks.
msg133789 - (view) Author: Ezio Melotti (ezio.melotti) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-04-15 05:11
See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2001-January/003753.html
msg133792 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2011-04-15 05:27
New changeset e1f0881d2cb4 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7':
#11848: replace dead link in random.betavariate comment.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e1f0881d2cb4

New changeset f5b9ad73157c by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.1':
#11848: replace dead link in random.betavariate comment.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f5b9ad73157c

New changeset 40656d8ae2c6 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2':
#11848: Merge with 3.1.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/40656d8ae2c6

New changeset 2acb16023fbe by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
#11848: Merge with 3.2.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2acb16023fbe
msg133793 - (view) Author: Ezio Melotti (ezio.melotti) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-04-15 05:28
I replaced the link, thanks for noticing it!
msg133794 - (view) Author: Brandon W Maister (quodlibetor) Date: 2011-04-15 05:52
Oh, awesome, thanks!
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:57:16adminsetgithub: 56057
2011-04-15 05:52:37quodlibetorsetmessages: + msg133794
2011-04-15 05:28:44ezio.melottisetstatus: open -> closed
messages: + msg133793

assignee: ezio.melotti
resolution: fixed
stage: resolved
2011-04-15 05:27:51python-devsetnosy: + python-dev
messages: + msg133792
2011-04-15 05:11:14ezio.melottisetnosy: + ezio.melotti
messages: + msg133789
2011-04-15 05:04:07quodlibetorcreate