From: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 22:53:14 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Remove unnecessary and over-restrictive type check (GH-10905)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~356
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=09473ac0636c16c0ee96c4caf59f3da8ba8b4a57;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Remove unnecessary and over-restrictive type check (GH-10905)
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diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
index a7a86070c0a9..03c058a39d6e 100644
--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -718,8 +718,6 @@ class SystemRandom(Random):
         """getrandbits(k) -> x.  Generates an int with k random bits."""
         if k <= 0:
             raise ValueError('number of bits must be greater than zero')
-        if k != int(k):
-            raise TypeError('number of bits should be an integer')
         numbytes = (k + 7) // 8                       # bits / 8 and rounded up
         x = int.from_bytes(_urandom(numbytes), 'big')
         return x >> (numbytes * 8 - k)                # trim excess bits