Message367087
If I believe what Victor wrote about:
"""
The implementation of random.Random, random.SystemRandom and
random.Random subclasses are not affected by this change.
"""
then I don't understand how the API is changed. IIUC, users subclassing random.Random won't see a difference. However, users now can subclass BaseRandom which makes it easier to obtain a full-featured random generator class.
However, if we want to think about a new subclassing API, it may be worth looking at the recent Numpy changes. Numpy added a new random generator API recently, with a design based on composition rather than inheritance (and also they switched from Mersenne Twister to another underlying PRNG!):
https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/index.html |
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2020-04-23 09:16:30 | pitrou | set | recipients:
+ pitrou, tim.peters, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, vstinner, serhiy.storchaka |
2020-04-23 09:16:30 | pitrou | set | messageid: <1587633390.42.0.533546942254.issue40346@roundup.psfhosted.org> |
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