[issue33144] random._randbelow optimization

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

> the optimized `_randbelow()` also avoids populating its locals 
> with 5 unused formal arguments

Yes, that clean-up would be nice as well :-)

Any thoughts on having __init__ set a flag versus using __init__subclass__ to backpatch the subclass?  To me, the former looks like plain python and latter doesn't seem like something that would normally be done in the standard library.

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