On Apr 18, 2:46 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > > > Hi Carl, > > > Thanks for the explanation - good to know just why this was > > happening. I'd noticed the tests being run in a different order as I > > tried to debug this, but hadn't dug deep enough to discover the cause. > > > In misc/latex.py how the latex is created often depends on the value > > of the boolean EMBEDDED_MODE, typically wrapping the latex in HTML > > tags, or not. So then it must be critical to assume a default value > > of this switch and restore that state at the end of example that > > exercises the alternate behavior. Maybe there are other places where > > this situation could arise? > > > Thinking as I write - a randomized order for tests might cause errors > > like this to not occur during the review process, but then surface > > spuriously during testing after releases? In the long-run it would > > lead to more bullet-proof tests (long-term gain, better tests), but > > maybe inject a confusing element of randomness in initial testing > > (short-term pain, more heartburn for the release manager)? > > > An alternative would be to name the examples with names like > > "example_0006" so the alphabetical sorting is the same as the order of > > the tests in the file. Just thoughts - I don't have enough experience > > to say which makes more sense. > > > Thanks again for explaining the mystery. > > I posted a patch so that > > (1) doctests are ran in the same order as the file > (2) doctests can be run in random order > (3) doctests can be run in random order specified by a seed > > Carl, maybe you can referee it: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5816 > > William
Where's the patch? John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
