Testing random

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Peter Otten wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> I wrote a very simple function to test random:
>>>     def test_random(length, multiplier = 10000):
>>>         number_list = length * [0]
>>>         for i in range(length * multiplier):
>>>             number_list[random.randint(0, length - 1)] += 1
>>>         minimum = min(number_list)
>>>         maximum = max(number_list)
>>>         return (minimum, maximum, minimum / maximum)
>> 
>> Putting aside the timing aspects, your frequency calculations are not
>> done in a very Pythonic manner.
> 
> I would agree if the frequency table were sparse, i. e. many indices with
> 
> number_list[index] == 0
> 
> but that's not the case with on average 10000 hits per index.

A common misconception.

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