Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Sat Oct 17 19:03:35 EDT 2015

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Yes, randrange(n) does that.

--Guido (mobile)
On Oct 17, 2015 2:28 PM, "Brian Gladman" <brg at gladman.plus.com> wrote:

> > Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> > I'm fine with dropping the 3rd arg. But I find the argument to
> > introduce a new spelling for 1-arg randrange() weak.
>
> I should stress that my preference for randbelow over randrange was
> based purely on their proposed functionality and not on their names.
>
> I do however have a preference for a function of minimum required
> functionality, i.e. one that allows only a single parameter (N) to
> set the range 0 .. N-1.
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