#10122: Random doctests in random_matrix helpers
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Reporter: jason | Owner: jason, was
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: linear algebra | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by jason):
Replying to [comment:1 rbeezer]:
> Hi Jason,
>
> The randomness comes from the distributions in the GSL library. You can
set the seed, on a per-distribution basis, at the time you initialize the
distribution.
>
> We could not see a way to do this in a doctest, but outside the routine
being tested. So we *definitely* tried to do this, and *probably*
couldn't find a way.
>
I see that GSL is not one of the libraries interfaced in
misc/randstate.pyx. At first glance, that would be the way to fix it (add
GSL to one of the supported library seed-setting routines in that file).
I see that it's a more complicated issue though. Thanks for the
explanation.
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