[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

[Raymond Hettinger]

Change by Raymond Hettinger :


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[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger  added the comment:


New changeset 08ec80113b3b7f7a9eaa3d217494536b63305181 by Zackery Spytz in 
branch 'main':
bpo-46737: Add default arguments to random.gauss and normalvariate (GH-31360)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/08ec80113b3b7f7a9eaa3d217494536b63305181


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[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

[Zackery Spytz]

Zackery Spytz  added the comment:

I have created a patch for this issue.  Please consider having a look.

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[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

[Zackery Spytz]

Change by Zackery Spytz :


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[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson  added the comment:

+1

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[issue46737] Default to the standard normal distribution

[Raymond Hettinger]

New submission from Raymond Hettinger :

This is really minor, but it would convenient if we provided default arguments:

random.gauss(mu=0.0, sigma=1.0)
random.normalvariate(mu=0.0, sigma=1.0)

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title: Default to the standard normal distribution
type: enhancement
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