Yaroslav Halchenko <yarikop...@gmail.com> added the comment: I have spent too much time in Python to be able to compare to other languages ;) but anywhere I saw RNG being used, there was a way to seed it or to provide a state. tempfile provides no such API
my usecase -- comparison of logs from two runs where I need to troubleshoot the point of divergence in execution . Logs in our case (datalad) contain temporary directory filenames, so they always "diff" and I need to sift through them or to come up with some obscure sed regex to unify them. I found in other projects of ours a really handy to be able to seed RNG globally so two runs result in identical execution path -- allows for easier reproducibility/comparison. But when it got to those temporary filenames -- apparently I could not make it happen and would need to resort to some heavy monkey patching. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32276> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
