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> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>
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> > if rng is None:
> > rng = random._inst
> >
> > which is the default RNG instance in the module.
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> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:18:01AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > No, I meant what I wrote. The ‘rng’ parameter is expected to be
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> > instance, we bind ‘rng’ t
boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> writes:
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> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 04:05:58PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
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seed.
Hopefully you can take this as an example of how to better design
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> *single* string object. Semantically, the fragments are specifying one
> object in a single step.
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> explicitly documented:
>
> Note that leading zeros in a non-zero decimal number are not
> allowed. This is for disambiguation with C-style octal
another level, the answer is: I don't know why that decision was
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> Emacs and Vim are the unchallenged masters here […]
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> They aren't a small investment, though
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> I have today published a different approach, which I designed for one
> code base ad is to date its only user. I'm looking for more feedback.
>
> <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gajja/>
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