[Python-Dev] Unittests (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:45:09 -0400

I don't want to argue. Why not have both whrandom and random around ?

The prime reasons against are clutter and confusion. whrandom serves no non-redundant purpose, and the existence of both confuses both oldtimers and newcomers (I get the questions about these; I'm tired of answering them).

I don't see the value of deprecating a stone-old module just because there's a new flashy module with a different name around.

random.py was introduced in March of 1994; the continued existence of the redundant whrandom.py has been confusing people for more than 8 years now.