Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: simplerandom
Version: 0.6.2
Summary: Simple random number generators
Home-page: http://bitbucket.org/cmcqueen1975/simplerandom/
Author: Craig McQueen
Author-email: python@craig.mcqueen.id.au
License: MIT
Description: =============
        Simple Random
        =============
        
        :Author: Craig McQueen
        :Contact: http://craig.mcqueen.id.au/
        :Copyright: 2010 Craig McQueen
        
        
        Simple pseudo-random number generators, from George Marsaglia.
        
        -----
        Intro
        -----
        
        The ``simplerandom`` package is provided, which contains modules containing
        classes for various simple pseudo-random number generators.
        
        The algorithms were obtained from a newsgroup post by George Marsaglia
        [#marsaglia]_. The algorithms were specified in C in the newsgroup post. For
        the purpose of prototyping software in a high-level language such as Python,
        before writing it in faster C, it is useful to have identical algorithms
        implemented in both Python and C.
        
        One module provides Python iterators, which generate simple unsigned 32-bit
        integers identical to their C counterparts.
        
        Another module provides random classes that are sub-classed from the class
        ``Random`` in the ``random`` module of the standard Python library.
        
        
        References
        ``````````
        
        .. [#marsaglia] | `Random Numbers for C\: End, at last?`__
                        | George Marsaglia
                        | Newsgroup post, sci.stat.math and others, Thu, 21 Jan 1999
        
        .. __:
        .. _Random Numbers for C\: End, at last?:
            http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/marsaglia-rng.html
        
        
        ----------------
        Modules Provided
        ----------------
        
        ==========================  ===========================================================================
        Module                      Description
        ==========================  ===========================================================================
        ``simplerandom.iterators``  Iterator classes, which generate unsigned 32-bit integers.
        ``simplerandom.random``     Classes that conform to standard Python ``random.Random`` API.
        ==========================  ===========================================================================
        
        
        -----
        Usage
        -----
        
        Iterators
        `````````
        
            >>> import simplerandom.iterators as sri
            >>> rng = sri.RandomKISSIterator(123958, 34987243, 3495825239, 2398172431)
            >>> next(rng)
            21111917L
            >>> next(rng)
            1327965872L
            >>> next(rng)
            2128842716L
        
        Random class API
        ````````````````
        
            >>> import simplerandom.random as srr
            >>> rng = srr.RandomKISS(258725234)
            >>> rng.random()
            0.30631872435766117
            >>> rng.random()
            0.43903576112750442
            >>> rng.random()
            0.69756297733927486
        
        
        -------------------------
        Supported Python Versions
        -------------------------
        
        Currently this has had basic testing on Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit and Windows XP 32-bit.
        
        In Ubuntu, it has been tested on Python 2.6 and 3.1 and passes.
        
        In Windows, it has been tested on Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.1 and passes. It has also
        been tested on Python 2.5, and fails (due to use of ``next()`` function).
        
        The pure Python code is expected to work on 64-bit platforms.
        The Cython version of ``simplerandom.iterators`` should work on 64-bit
        platforms, but has not been tested.
        
        The plan is to support Python >= 2.5 and 3.x.
        
        
        ------------
        Installation
        ------------
        
        The simplerandom package is installed using ``distutils``.  If you have the tools
        installed to build a Python extension module, run the following command::
        
            python setup.py install
        
        If you cannot build the C extension, you may install just the pure Python
        implementation, using the following command::
        
            python setup.py build_py install --skip-build
        
        
        ------------
        Unit Testing
        ------------
        
        Basic unit testing of the iterators is in ``simplerandom.iterators.test``. It
        duplicates the tests of the C algorithms given in the original newsgroup post
        [#marsaglia]_. It should print seven lines, all containing 0.
        
        To run it on Python >=2.5::
        
            python -m simplerandom.iterators.test
        
        Alternatively, in the ``test`` directory run::
        
            python test_iterators.py
        
        
        -------------
        Documentation
        -------------
        
        No documentation is yet written, apart from this README.txt. The plan is to
        write documentation using Sphinx, and provide it online at:
        
            http://packages.python.org/simplerandom/
        
        
        -------
        License
        -------
        
        The code is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE.txt for details.
        
        
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Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1
Classifier: Programming Language :: Cython
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