I'm using the Faker Generator for Python (last version) but still trying to figure out the meaning of the paramater "step=1". Any ideas? There is nothing about this parameter in the documentation or anywhere else on the web so far.
pyint(min_value=0, max_value=9999, **step=1**)
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Thank you much for your help!
pyint generates a random number effectively sampled from range(min_value, max_value+1, step). That's where the step comes in.
The documentation for pyint is severely lacking, but if we go to the source code:
def pyint(self, min_value=0, max_value=9999, step=1):
return self.generator.random_int(min_value, max_value, step=step)
we see that it delegates to this method:
def random_int(self, min=0, max=9999, step=1):
"""Generate a random integer between two integers ``min`` and ``max`` inclusive
while observing the provided ``step`` value.
This method is functionally equivalent to randomly sampling an integer
from the sequence ``range(min, max + 1, step)``.
:sample:
:sample size=10: min=0, max=15
:sample size=10: min=0, max=15, step=3
"""
return self.generator.random.randrange(min, max + 1, step)
which has a useful docstring.