diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
index 0d2f06b..608203f 100644
--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -214,15 +214,11 @@
 
 # -------------------- test program --------------------
 
-def test(*args):
+def test(N = 200):
 	print 'TWOPI         =', TWOPI
 	print 'LOG4          =', LOG4
 	print 'NV_MAGICCONST =', NV_MAGICCONST
 	print 'SG_MAGICCONST =', SG_MAGICCONST
-	N = 200
-	if args:
-		if args[1:]: print 'Excess test() arguments ignored'
-		N = args[0]
 	test_generator(N, 'random()')
 	test_generator(N, 'normalvariate(0.0, 1.0)')
 	test_generator(N, 'lognormvariate(0.0, 1.0)')