From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 08:46:18 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-36018: Make "seed" into a keyword only argument (GH-12921) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a4~124 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb8c7d53326d137785ca311bfc48c8284da46770;p=python bpo-36018: Make "seed" into a keyword only argument (GH-12921) --- diff --git a/Doc/library/statistics.rst b/Doc/library/statistics.rst index b62bcfdffd..fb7df4e718 100644 --- a/Doc/library/statistics.rst +++ b/Doc/library/statistics.rst @@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ of applications in statistics. :exc:`StatisticsError` because it takes at least one point to estimate a central value and at least two points to estimate dispersion. - .. method:: NormalDist.samples(n, seed=None) + .. method:: NormalDist.samples(n, *, seed=None) Generates *n* random samples for a given mean and standard deviation. Returns a :class:`list` of :class:`float` values. diff --git a/Lib/statistics.py b/Lib/statistics.py index 4a0978cbcd..19db8e8280 100644 --- a/Lib/statistics.py +++ b/Lib/statistics.py @@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ class NormalDist: xbar = fmean(data) return cls(xbar, stdev(data, xbar)) - def samples(self, n, seed=None): + def samples(self, n, *, seed=None): 'Generate *n* samples for a given mean and standard deviation.' gauss = random.gauss if seed is None else random.Random(seed).gauss mu, sigma = self.mu, self.sigma