On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > I just fixed a unittest for some code used at Google that was > comparing a url generated by urllib.encode() to a fixed string. The > problem was caused by turning on PYTHONHASHSEED=1. Because of this, > the code under test would generate a textually different URL each time > the test was run, but the intention of the test was just to check that > all the query parameters were present and equal to the expected > values. > > > query = sorted(query.items())
Hmm. ISTM this is putting priority on the unit test above the functionality of actual usage. Although on the other hand, sorting parameters on a URL is nothing compared to the cost of network traffic, so it's unlikely to be significant. Chris Angelico _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com