[issue39108] Documentation for "random.gauss" vs "random.normalvariate" is lacking

2019-12-20 Thread Karthikeyan Singaravelan
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[issue39108] Documentation for "random.gauss" vs "random.normalvariate" is lacking

2019-12-20 Thread Charles Newey
New submission from Charles Newey : The Python 3 documentation for the "random" module mentions two possible ways to generate a random variate drawn from a normal distribution - "random.gauss" and "random.normalvariate" (see: https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html#random.gauss). It's