On 28/08/2017 20:17, Leam Hall wrote: > On 08/28/2017 11:40 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > ... a bunch of good stuff ... > > I'm (re-)learning python and just trying make sure my function works. > Not at the statistical or cryptographic level. :) > > Thanks! > > Leam
If it's supposed to generate values that follow a particular distribution, and they don't, then it doesn't work. I had a bunch of functions for generating values from various distributions. My line manager told me to just set the seed so that the outputs were deterministic. Worse than no test at all. It relied on my original implementation (that generated the values for comparison) working, and only tested if the implementation (of random.random() or my code) had changed. So I ignored my boss and simply generated samples of values and tested using a KS goodness of fit test. The tests should fail 5% of the time. Run them a few times and check that no individual test is failing consistently. I don't see how you can do much better than that. Of course, this doesn't relate directly to doctest. Duncan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
