On Do, 2016-01-21 at 09:38 +0000, Robert Kern wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Sebastian Berg < > sebast...@sipsolutions.net> wrote: > > > > On Di, 2016-01-19 at 16:28 +0000, G Young wrote: > > > In rand range, it raises an exception if low >= high. > > > > > > I should also add that AFAIK enforcing low >= high with floats is > a > > > lot trickier than it is for integers. I have been knee-deep in > > > corner cases for some time with randint where numbers that are > > > visually different are cast as the same number by numpy due to > > > rounding and representation issues. That situation only gets > worse > > > with floats. > > > > > > > Well, actually random.uniform docstring says: > > > > Get a random number in the range [a, b) or [a, b] depending on > > rounding. > > Which docstring are you looking at? The current one says [low, high) >
Sorry, I was referring to the python random.uniform function. And as far as I now understand the current numpy equivalent (intentionally or not) seems to do the same thing, which suits fine with me. - Sebastian > http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.random.unif > orm.html#numpy.random.uniform > > -- > Robert Kern > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
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