[Numpy-discussion] random permutation

[Ted Horst]

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 <robert.kern at gmail.com> 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
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