On 6.2.2012 09:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You have persuaded me that the doc should be more explicit that while
the basic random.random sequence will be kept repeatable with seed set
(except perhaps after a changeover of several releases), the convenience
transformations can be changed if improvements are needed or thought
sufficiently desirable.
A more explicit note will help, but the basic problem applies: how do you
write deterministic tests given that the random.methods (apart from
random.random itself) can be changed without warning?
Also, how could I write a re-implementation of random.choice which would
work same on python 2.6 and python 3.2? It is not only matter of unit
tests, but I would really welcome if the results on both versions
produce the same results.
Could we get some hint in the release notes?
Thanks for the help,
Matěj
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