Implementaion of random.shuffle

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Jul 17 16:30:49 EDT 2007


Josiah Carlson wrote:
> shabda raaj wrote:
[...]
> 
>> Anyway, is there some test harness we can run to test the robustness
>> of shuffle? We can run that test harness for large values and see at
>> what point all permutations are not possible or come with unequal
>> probability.
> 
> Shuffle works as intended.  Your assumptions about it's functionality 
> are incorrect.  Testing will only prove that your assumptions are wrong.
> 
Which is alone a good justification for testing.

easier-than-proving-oneself-right-ly y'rs  - steve
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