[Numpy-discussion] Putting some random back into the top-level?

[Rob Hetland]

I, for one, would also like this.  Perhaps it should not be called  
'rand', however, as that conflicts with the pylab rand.  (numpy load  
and pylab load also conflict -- probably the only reason I ever use  
import pylab as pl in my scripts).  'random' is already taken by the  
whole package... What does this leave that is still sensible?

-r

On Mar 9, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:

> Has enough time passed with no top level random function that we can
> now put one back in?
> If I recall, the former top level rand() was basically removed because
> it didn't adhere to the "shapes are always tuples" convention.
>
> Has enough time passed now that we can put something like it back in
> the top level, in tuple-taking form?
>
> I think this is a function people use pretty frequently when writing
> quick tests.
> And numpy.random.random_sample seems a rather long and not so obvious
> name for something that is used relatively frequently.
>
> --bb
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