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Author ronrivest
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Date 2003-09-25.14:56:46
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If the code is not going to be fixed, then the
documentation should be updated.  I am well aware
of other approaches to generating large random numbers,
but was misled by the documentation Python provides.  The
documentation should make it clear when the code violates
its "contract" (i.e. doesn't generate all integers in the range).
I prefer the code being fixed best, but also feel that the code 
should raise an exception if it can't honor the contract implied 
in its documentation.
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2007-08-23 14:17:09adminlinkissue812202 messages
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