[Python-Dev] Unittests (original) (raw)

Andrew P. Lentvorski bsder@allcaps.org
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:49:10 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Aahz wrote:

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002, Neal Norwitz wrote: > > whrandom.py

This is a deprecated module, no?

What is the "Official Python(tm)" method for generating a "guaranteed for all time to always be the same if started with the same seed" string of random numbers for use in something like a UnitTest?

The Random module does not seem to make any promises about repeatability between versions, releases, operating-systems, etc. The only thing which enforces the repeatability is the fact that the generator is actually the whrandom generator under the covers.

Incidentally, a similar question has been asked before and didn't really get good closure on the response, see:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=MPG.16a822cc6abaa77c98970e%40enews.newsguy.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Ddanil%2Bwhrandom%26hl%3Den%26selm%3DMPG.16a822cc6abaa77c98970e%2540enews.newsguy.com%26rnum%3D1

(I hope that URL comes through okay, if not search for "danil" and "whrandom" in your favorite clp search engine)

-a