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5 Miscellaneous Services

The modules described in this chapter provide miscellaneous services that are available in all Python versions. Here's an overview:

math

-- Mathematical functions (sin() etc.).

whrandom

-- Floating point pseudo-random number generator.

random

-- Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common distributions.

rand

-- Integer pseudo-random number generator (obsolete).

array

-- Efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values.

• 5.1 Built-in Module math
• 5.2 Built-in Module cmath
• 5.3 Standard Module whrandom
• 5.4 Standard Module random
• 5.5 Standard Module rand
• 5.6 Built-in Module array