New submission from Serge Anuchin: It seems there is minor bug in random.choice.
I've got traceback from my server with IndexError from random.choice, but sequence wasn't empty (seq value was: u'\u0411\u0413\u0414\u0416\u0418\u041b\u0426\u042b\u042d\ u042e\u042f\u0410\u0412\u0415\u041a\u041c\u0420\u0422\ u042312456789') Maybe I mistaken, but only explanation that I have for this exception is rounding by int() of random value that was very close to 1. TL;RD: >>> int(0.99999999999999995) 1 >>> seq = 'test' >>> seq[int(0.99999999999999995 * len(seq))] # logic from random.choice IndexError: string index out of range Is it plausible explanation of exception or I'am wrong? ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 246038 nosy: Serge Anuchin, mark.dickinson, rhettinger priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: sequence index bug in random.choice type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24546> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
