sympy: what's wrong with this picture?

[Mensanator]

On Mar 3, 4:08 pm, Robert Kern <robert.k... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mensanator wrote:
> > On Mar 3, 2:49 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> It's just a bug--probably sympy is messing with the internals of the
> >> random number generator.  It would be a simple fix.  Instead of
> >> b****ing about it, file a bug report.  
>
> > I did.
>
> >> Or better yet, submit a patch.
>
> > I would if I knew what the problem was.
>
> Did you even try to figure it out? It took me all of 5 minutes to find the mistake.

Could I trouble you to share? Then I could continue my testing.

>
> > I posted it here because someone recommended it.
> > I'm simply un-recommending it.
>
> It was a mistake, an easily remedied mistake,

But I didn't know that (and still don't).

> not a big unchangeable design decision.

I didn't know that either. For all I know, I might have to
wait for the next version, and who knows when that will be?

> If you want to recommend against sympy as a package, there is a larger
> burden of proof that you have yet to meet.

What kind of burden of proof must one have to recommend it in the
first place?

>
> --
> Robert Kern
>
> "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
>   that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
>   an underlying truth."
>    -- Umberto Eco