On 2010-02-24 13:09 PM, mk wrote:
On 2010-02-24 20:01, Robert Kern wrote:
I will repeat my advice to just use random.SystemRandom.choice() instead
of trying to interpret the bytes from /dev/urandom directly.
Oh I hear you -- for production use I would (will) certainly consider
this. However, now I'm interested in the problem itself: why is the damn
distribution not uniform?
You want "< 234", not "< 235". (234 % 26 == 0), so you get some extra 'a's.
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Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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