Future Plans¶

A substantial portion of randomgen has been merged into NumPy. Revamping NumPy’s random number generation was always the goal of this project (and its predecessor NextGen NumPy RandomState), and so it has succeeded.

The future plans for randomgen are:

• Generator and RandomState have been removed in 1.23.

• Put the novel methods of Generator in a ExtendedGenerator. ExtendedGenerator will be maintained, although it is possible that some of the methods may migrate to NumPy.

• Add useful distributions that are not supported in NumPy. Pull requests adding useful generators are welcome.

• Add any novel and interesting bit generators, and extend that capabilities of existing ones.