[Numpy-discussion] NEP: Random Number Generator Policy (original) (raw)

Stephan Hoyer shoyer at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 23:55:12 EDT 2018

This is a little weird; "mtrand" is an implementation detail already. There's exactly 3 instances of that in scikit-learn, so replacing those with a sane name (with a long timeline, say 4 numpy versions at least plus a major version number bump) doesn't seem unreasonable.

Everything in this paragraph is explicitly just about the initial release with the new subsystem. A following paragraph says that we should revisit all of these in following releases.

This already read a little strangely to me -- it sounded like an indefinite pronouncement. It would be good to clarify :).

Otherwise, I am quite happy with this NEP! It avoids unnecessary churn, and opens the door to much needed improvements in numpy.random. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/attachments/20180616/dbfb5227/attachment-0001.html>

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