On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
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> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 2:35 AM, Robert Kern
wrote:
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>> Well, I mean, engineers want lots of things. I suspect that most
engineers *really* just want to call `numpy.random.seed(8675309)` at the
start and never explicitly pass around separ
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 2:35 AM, Robert Kern wrote:
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> Well, I mean, engineers want lots of things. I suspect that most engineers
> *really* just want to call `numpy.random.seed(8675309)` at the start and
> never explicitly pass around separate streams. There's an upside to that in
> terms of cod
As a bit of a real-life example where things can go wrong with naming. The
"pylab" name was accidentally hijacked a couple years ago on pypi, and
caused several bug reports to be filed against matplotlib for failing
scripts. Some people thought that one should do "pip install pylab" to do
"from py
