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Author	serhiy.storchaka
Recipients	mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2020-04-21.15:31:27
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Message-id	<1587483088.1.0.379988317318.issue40346@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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It may be time to start emitting a warning if a Random subclass overrides random() but not getrandbits() or vice versa. If you only override random(), methods which rely on generating random integers will use worse algorithm (slightly less uniform). If you only override getrandbits(), -- it is even worse, methods which rely on generating random floating point number will be not affected.

It may be time to start emitting a warning if a Random subclass overrides random() but not getrandbits() or vice versa.

If you only override random(), methods which rely on generating random integers will use worse algorithm (slightly less uniform). If you only override getrandbits(), -- it is even worse, methods which rely on generating random floating point number will be not affected.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2020-04-21 15:31:28	serhiy.storchaka	set	recipients: + serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, pitrou, vstinner
2020-04-21 15:31:28	serhiy.storchaka	set	messageid: <1587483088.1.0.379988317318.issue40346@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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2020-04-21 15:31:27	serhiy.storchaka	create