On 01/06/2013 09:51 PM, Olivier Grisel wrote:
> 2013/1/6 Andreas Mueller <[email protected]>:
>> Hi everybody.
>> I'm a bit confused by our usage of random numbers in the tests.
>> Usually all tests have fixed random seeds. But then there is a global
>> random state that is set
>> explicitly and printed for reproducability.
>> What is that state for?
> It's a way to reproduce failures caused by missing random_state.
This is the only reason?
Ok, then. But why not just set it to one fixed value there?

>> One of the open issues was caused by the test using this global state -
>> actually
>> the test even said it was using the global random state!
> I would rather avoid using using the shared random number generator to
> avoid having tests that depends on the running order.
>
Ok, I'll fix the seed.

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