23 юни 2012, събота, 18:35:22 UTC+3, Stefan Krastanov написа:
>
> > What's the purpose of using precomputed values? 
> I am not sure how useful it is as a test, however the idea is to check 
> that the algorithm works correctly without the problems that testing 
> random numbers brings. 
>  
>
Even if it is actually useless for testing the algorithm, it is still 
> useful for testing the 2to3 translator that we use for python3. 
>
Such tests may indeed be very implementation-specific (is that why you 
think they might be useless?), but I wouldn't say that they don't help at 
all - there are still many things that can be broken inside a function that 
make such tests fail.

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