On 09/05/2014 01:19 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > You mean it's not backward compatible because it won't generate exactly the > same > sequence of output for a given seed, and therefore we wouldn't want to make > that > change? > > I think it's somewhat debatable whether generating a different sequence of > random numbers counts as breaking backward compatibility.
For regression tests it's essential to be able to generate the same sequence of values from a pseudo-random number generator. Phil _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
