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shuffle() doscstring: Removed warning about sequence length

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versus generator period.  While this was a real weakness of the
older WH generator for lists with just a few dozen elements,
and so could potentially bite the naive ;-), the Twister should
show excellent behavior up to at least 600 elements.

Module docstring:  reflowed some jarringly short lines.
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Tim Peters 2006-06-10 22:51:45 +00:00
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General notes on the underlying Mersenne Twister core generator:
* The period is 2**19937-1.
* It is one of the most extensively tested generators in existence
* Without a direct way to compute N steps forward, the
semantics of jumpahead(n) are weakened to simply jump
to another distant state and rely on the large period
to avoid overlapping sequences.
* The random() method is implemented in C, executes in
a single Python step, and is, therefore, threadsafe.
* It is one of the most extensively tested generators in existence.
* Without a direct way to compute N steps forward, the semantics of
jumpahead(n) are weakened to simply jump to another distant state and rely
on the large period to avoid overlapping sequences.
* The random() method is implemented in C, executes in a single Python step,
and is, therefore, threadsafe.
"""
@ -253,11 +252,6 @@ class Random(_random.Random):
Optional arg random is a 0-argument function returning a random
float in [0.0, 1.0); by default, the standard random.random.
Note that for even rather small len(x), the total number of
permutations of x is larger than the period of most random number
generators; this implies that "most" permutations of a long
sequence can never be generated.
"""
if random is None: