[New-bugs-announce] [issue44400] Propose random.randbool()

[Dong-hee Na]

New submission from Dong-hee Na <donghee.na at python.org>:

I noticed that the random library does not provide `random.randbool()`.
Generating bool value is quite common in the use-case when we generated faked data
(unittest, machine learning training, etc)

Somebody can say write your own library but it's too common use-case and in physically some isolated environments is hard to use 3rd party library.

Since the bool value is the built-in type of python, I think that is very useful when we provide this function.

I would like to get opinions from Raymond and then proceed with this issue.

Here is the candidate implementation:

def randbool():
    return bool(getrandbits(1))

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 395671
nosy: corona10, rhettinger
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Propose random.randbool()
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.11

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