On Oct 10, 5:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ryan Hinton wrote: > > Jason, > > > I saw a suggestion recently on the sage list to set the random seed at > > the beginning of each doctest so previously "random" outputs could be > > tested. I'm writing some 'pick a random member from this (very large) > > set' routines, so I could use this functionality. Is it in yet? How > > can I set the random seed (inside my doctest)? > > > Thanks! > > I think Carl Witty wrote this functionality (I've CCd him). I think it > is in now, but he knows the details of how to use it.
Quick summary: The random seed is automatically set at the beginning of each docstring. If you're using the standard Sage random number routines (like ZZ.random_element(), or the combinatorics random elements, etc.), then you shouldn't have to do anything to make your doctest repeatable. If you do want to set a random seed inside your docstring (or at the Sage command line), use sage: set_random_seed(0) (or pick another number instead of the 0). For more details, there's about 400 lines of documentation at the top of sage/misc/randstate.pyx; I don't want to repeat it all here :) Carl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
