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Author	wolma
Recipients	rhettinger, selik, serhiy.storchaka, wolma
Date	2018年04月03日.08:50:00
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Message-id	<1522745400.3.0.467229070634.issue33203@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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@selik: it's true _randbelow doesn't work for negative numbers, but the difference is that both branches are affected, the docstring does not make any guarantees about it, and no public part of the random module is affected by this behavior. In addition, "fixing" _randbelow for negative input cannot be done without impacting performance of several public methods of random.Random so I don't think this should be done.

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@selik: it's true _randbelow doesn't work for negative numbers, but the difference is that both branches are affected, the docstring does not make any guarantees about it, and no public part of the random module is affected by this behavior. In addition, "fixing" _randbelow for negative input cannot be done without impacting performance of several public methods of random.Random so I don't think this should be done.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018年04月03日 08:50:00	wolma	set	recipients: + wolma, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, selik
2018年04月03日 08:50:00	wolma	set	messageid: <1522745400.3.0.467229070634.issue33203@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2018年04月03日 08:50:00	wolma	link	issue33203 messages
2018年04月03日 08:50:00	wolma	create

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