Thanks Robert, Just for the archive: I hope the problem I was thinking of is what is referred to here: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2005-July/004992.html i.e. it should have been fixed as bug #1123145 in Numeric.
(see also here: https://nanohub.org/infrastructure/rappture-runtime/browser/trunk/Numeric-24.2/changes.txt?rev=42 ) I still haven't learned how to write unittests .... (sorry) - Sebastian Haase On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Robert Kern <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:30, Sebastian Haase <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> maybe this is an obsolete concern, >> but at some point in the past >> N.random.poisson would not always return 0 for lambda being zero. >> (My post at the time should be in the (numarray) list archive) >> >> So the question is, is this still a valid concern for the current numpy? > > No. > >> Could there a unittest added that does something like this: >> >>>>> a=N.random.poisson(0, 10000) >>>>> N.alltrue(a==0) >> True > > Write up a patch. > > -- > Robert Kern > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless > enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as > though it had an underlying truth." > -- Umberto Eco > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
