BTW, This test doesn't work on python 2.3 because sorted does not exist there.
Ted On Jan 13, 2007, at 15:15, Stefan van der Walt wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:01:59AM -0800, Keith Goodman wrote: >> On 1/11/07, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Keith Goodman wrote: >>>> Why is the first element of the permutation always the same? Am I >>>> using random.permutation in the right way? >>> >>>>>> M.__version__ >>>> '1.0rc1' >>> >>> This has been fixed in more recent versions. >>> >>> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/374 >> >> I don't see any unit tests for numpy.random. I guess randomness is >> hard to test. > > Every time we fix a bug, we add a corresponding test to make sure > that it > doesn't pop up again. In this case, take a look in > numpy/core/tests/test_regression.py: > > def check_random_shuffle(self, level=rlevel): > """Ticket #374""" > a = N.arange(5).reshape((5,1)) > b = a.copy() > N.random.shuffle(b) > assert_equal(sorted(b),a) > > Cheers > Stéfan > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
