Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment: > genrand_int32 is an internal function, > only available in C for the Mersenne Twister generator.
Yes, I know. I'm the one added that code ;-) > I don't know other generators. The problem is that we need an API that will accommodate other random number generators and not be specific to the MersenneTwister. Right now, the starting point for everything in the random module is an underlying generator supplying a random() method returning a float and an optional getrandombits() method which returns an int (possibly a long int). The latter is easily convertible to bytes with to_bytes() which uses a fast O(n) algorithm. ISTM, the getrandbytes() proposal amounts to a micro-optimization of existing capabilities, and it comes at the expense of fattening the API. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13396> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
