Kaydet (Commit) d6dd0e65 authored tarafından Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

Closes #20169: fix inner links random doc.

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......@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ On the real line, there are functions to compute uniform, normal (Gaussian),
lognormal, negative exponential, gamma, and beta distributions. For generating
distributions of angles, the von Mises distribution is available.
Almost all module functions depend on the basic function :func:`random`, which
Almost all module functions depend on the basic function :func:`.random`, which
generates a random float uniformly in the semi-open range [0.0, 1.0). Python
uses the Mersenne Twister as the core generator. It produces 53-bit precision
floats and has a period of 2\*\*19937-1. The underlying implementation in C is
......@@ -36,9 +36,10 @@ especially useful for multi-threaded programs, creating a different instance of
it likely that the generated sequences seen by each thread don't overlap.
Class :class:`Random` can also be subclassed if you want to use a different
basic generator of your own devising: in that case, override the :meth:`random`,
:meth:`seed`, :meth:`getstate`, :meth:`setstate` and :meth:`jumpahead` methods.
Optionally, a new generator can supply a :meth:`getrandbits` method --- this
basic generator of your own devising: in that case, override the :meth:`~Random.random`,
:meth:`~Random.seed`, :meth:`~Random.getstate`, :meth:`~Random.setstate` and
:meth:`~Random.jumpahead` methods. Optionally, a new generator can supply a
:meth:`~Random.getrandbits` method --- this
allows :meth:`randrange` to produce selections over an arbitrarily large range.
.. versionadded:: 2.4
......@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ Functions for sequences:
Shuffle the sequence *x* in place. The optional argument *random* is a
0-argument function returning a random float in [0.0, 1.0); by default, this is
the function :func:`random`.
the function :func:`.random`.
Note that for even rather small ``len(x)``, the total number of permutations of
*x* is larger than the period of most random number generators; this implies
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