[Python-Dev] Possible bug in randint when importing pylab? (original) (raw)

Timothy Kinney timothyjkinney at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 08:11:17 CEST 2010


I am getting some unexpected behavior in Python 2.6.4 on a WinXP SP3 box.

If I run the following:

[code] from pylab import randint

for s in range(100): print randint(0,1) [/code]

I get 100 zeroes.

If I import randint from random instead, I get the expected behavior of a random distribution of 1s and 0s.

I found this by importing * from pylab after importing randint from random.

What is going on? Is pylab's randint function broken somehow? Could this be due to installing scipy into a 2.6 environment when it was designed for the 2.5 environment?

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