Commit 1d43ce42 authored by Raymond Hettinger's avatar Raymond Hettinger

Misc readability and organization improvements for the random docs

parent acf42943
......@@ -49,8 +49,21 @@ from sources provided by the operating system.
security purposes. For security or cryptographic uses, see the
:mod:`secrets` module.
.. seealso::
Bookkeeping functions:
M. Matsumoto and T. Nishimura, "Mersenne Twister: A 623-dimensionally
equidistributed uniform pseudorandom number generator", ACM Transactions on
Modeling and Computer Simulation Vol. 8, No. 1, January pp.3-30 1998.
`Complementary-Multiply-with-Carry recipe
<https://code.activestate.com/recipes/576707/>`_ for a compatible alternative
random number generator with a long period and comparatively simple update
operations.
Bookkeeping functions
---------------------
.. function:: seed(a=None, version=2)
......@@ -94,7 +107,8 @@ Bookkeeping functions:
:meth:`randrange` to handle arbitrarily large ranges.
Functions for integers:
Functions for integers
----------------------
.. function:: randrange(stop)
randrange(start, stop[, step])
......@@ -117,7 +131,8 @@ Functions for integers:
``randrange(a, b+1)``.
Functions for sequences:
Functions for sequences
-----------------------
.. function:: choice(seq)
......@@ -188,6 +203,9 @@ Functions for sequences:
If the sample size is larger than the population size, a :exc:`ValueError`
is raised.
Real-valued distributions
-------------------------
The following functions generate specific real-valued distributions. Function
parameters are named after the corresponding variables in the distribution's
equation, as used in common mathematical practice; most of these equations can
......@@ -282,7 +300,8 @@ be found in any statistics text.
parameter.
Alternative Generator:
Alternative Generator
---------------------
.. class:: SystemRandom([seed])
......@@ -294,19 +313,6 @@ Alternative Generator:
:exc:`NotImplementedError` if called.
.. seealso::
M. Matsumoto and T. Nishimura, "Mersenne Twister: A 623-dimensionally
equidistributed uniform pseudorandom number generator", ACM Transactions on
Modeling and Computer Simulation Vol. 8, No. 1, January pp.3-30 1998.
`Complementary-Multiply-with-Carry recipe
<https://code.activestate.com/recipes/576707/>`_ for a compatible alternative
random number generator with a long period and comparatively simple update
operations.
Notes on Reproducibility
------------------------
......@@ -333,13 +339,13 @@ Basic examples::
>>> random() # Random float: 0.0 <= x < 1.0
0.37444887175646646
>>> uniform(2, 10) # Random float: 2.0 <= x < 10.0
>>> uniform(2.5, 10.0) # Random float: 2.5 <= x < 10.0
3.1800146073117523
>>> expovariate(1/5) # Interval between arrivals averaging 5 seconds
>>> expovariate(1 / 5) # Interval between arrivals averaging 5 seconds
5.148957571865031
>>> randrange(10) # Integer from 0 to 9
>>> randrange(10) # Integer from 0 to 9 inclusive
7
>>> randrange(0, 101, 2) # Even integer from 0 to 100 inclusive
......@@ -362,17 +368,16 @@ Simulations::
>>> choices(['red', 'black', 'green'], [18, 18, 2], k=6)
['red', 'green', 'black', 'black', 'red', 'black']
# Deal 20 cards without replacement from a deck of 52
# playing cards and determine the proportion of cards
# with a ten-value (i.e. a ten, jack, queen, or king).
# Deal 20 cards without replacement from a deck of 52 playing cards
# and determine the proportion of cards with a ten-value (i.e. a ten,
# jack, queen, or king).
>>> deck = collections.Counter(tens=16, low_cards=36)
>>> seen = sample(list(deck.elements()), k=20)
>>> print(seen.count('tens') / 20)
0.15
# Estimate the probability of getting 5 or more heads
# from 7 spins of a biased coin that settles on heads
# 60% of the time.
# Estimate the probability of getting 5 or more heads from 7 spins
# of a biased coin that settles on heads 60% of the time.
>>> n = 10000
>>> cw = [0.60, 1.00]
>>> sum(choices('HT', cum_weights=cw, k=7).count('H') >= 5 for i in range(n)) / n
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