On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:52:25 +0200 Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > Am 16.10.2012 12:43, schrieb Larry Hastings: > > On 10/16/2012 11:23 AM, Hynek Schlawack wrote: > >> Am 16.10.2012 um 12:15 schrieb andrew.svetlov <python-check...@python.org>: > >> > >>> + For easy to use interface to system randomness please see > >>> + :class:`random.SystemRandom`. > >> Is it just my non-native speaker ears, or should there be an “an” before > >> “easy”? > > > > There should. And "for system randomness" is hard to follow. I would > > have written it as > > > > For an easy-to-use interface to the random number generator provided > > by your platform, please see :class:`random.SystemRandom`. > > I don't like the phrase "easy-to-use" at all. IMO it can't get any > easier than "give my X random bytes". random.SystemRandom is simply a > high level interface that is mostly compatible with the random module.
I guess it's easy to use if you need something other than raw bytes. But, yes, I would call it "higher level" rather than "easy to use" (I don't think there's a need for hyphens, by the way). Regards Antoine. -- Software development and contracting: http://pro.pitrou.net _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
