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Author tim.peters
Recipients Serge Anuchin, mark.dickinson, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, skrah, steven.daprano, tim.peters, vstinner
Date 2015-07-09.23:42:22
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> It skews the distribution a tiny little bit, ...

But it doesn't - that's the point ;-)

If double-rounding doesn't occur at all (which appears to be the case on most platforms), absolutely nothing changes (because min(int(random() * N), N-1) == int(random() * N) on such boxes).

If double-rounding does occur, double-rounding itself may change results "all over the place", and I haven't tried to analyze what effects that has on the distribution.  In the comparative handful of cases where int(random() * N) == N on such boxes, clamping that back to N-1 just yields the same result we would have gotten on a box that didn't do double-rounding.
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