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authormattip <matti.picus@gmail.com>2019-07-09 00:13:12 -0500
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DOC: emphasize random API changes
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@@ -41,10 +41,28 @@ statistically more reliable than the legacy methods in `~.RandomState`
from numpy import random
random.standard_normal()
-`~Generator` can be used as a direct replacement for `~.RandomState`, although
-the random values are generated by `~.PCG64`. The
-`~Generator` holds an instance of a BitGenerator. It is accessible as
-``gen.bit_generator``.
+`~Generator` can be used as a replacement for `~.RandomState`. Both class
+instances now hold a internal `BitGenerator` instance to provide the bit
+stream, it is accessible as ``gen.bit_generator``. Some long-overdue API
+cleanup means that legacy and compatibility methods have been removed from
+`~.Generator`
+
+=================== ============== ============
+`~.RandomState` `~.Generator` Notes
+------------------- -------------- ------------
+``random_sample``, ``random`` Compatible with `random.random`
+``rand``
+------------------- -------------- ------------
+``randint``, ``integers`` Add an ``endpoint`` kwarg
+``random_integers``
+------------------- -------------- ------------
+``tomaxint`` removed Use ``integers(0, np.iinfo(np.int).max,``
+ ``endpoint=False)``
+------------------- -------------- ------------
+``seed`` removed Use `~.SeedSequence.spawn`
+=================== ============== ============
+
+See `new-or-different` for more information
.. code-block:: python