Democritus Random

Democritus functions^[1] for working with random.

[1] Democritus functions are simple, effective, modular, well-tested, and well-documented Python functions.

We use d8s (pronounced "dee-eights") as an abbreviation for democritus (you can read more about this here).

Installation

pip install d8s-random

You import the library like:

from d8s_random import *

Once imported, you can use any of the functions listed below.

def random_number():
    """Return a random number in range [0.0, 1.0)."""

def random_integer(a=0, b=10):
    """Return a random number between a and b (inclusive)."""

def random_xkcd_integer():
    """Get a random number using the method described here: https://xkcd.com/221/."""

def random_dilbert_integer():
    """Get a random number using the method described here: https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25c."""

def random_shuffle(iterable):
    """Shuffle the order of the given iterable."""

def random_choice(iterable):
    """Return a random item from the iterable."""

def random_choices(iterable, n: int):
    """Return a random item from the iterable."""

def random_sample(iterable, n):
    """Return n items, selected at random, from the iterable."""

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