MAC OSX 10.10.3
Enthought Python 2.7
I am an almost beginner.
Following advice from you generous people, I have chosen a project that
interests me, to develop some knowledge of python.
My projest is a simulation of a biological population.
I have a base class and a simulation function, which uses instances of
the class.
This, after many months of work and lots of advice, now seems to work
well. It generates sensible data and when I write a small test program
it gives sensible output.
Now I want to learn to use unittest.
I have written a unittest class which works OK.
But the problem I have is that because I use the random module to
populate my initial arrays, my data is not strictly predictable even
though I am using seed(0). So the tests return many *fails* because the
numbers are not exactly correct, although they are all rather close,
consistent with the sigma value I have chosen for the spread of my
population. I do of course use *almostEqual* and not *Equal*.
So, I would be very grateful for guidance. How does one proceed in this
case? Should I simply create an arbitrary array or value to input into
the function that I want to test?
I would be grateful for any guidance.
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Sydney
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