[Python-Dev] test_sort.py failure

[Tim Peters]

[Mark Russell]
> I had exactly the same thing happen today as well (unrepeatable failure
> in test_bug453523).  Would it defeat the purpose of the test to use a
> fixed starting point for the random numbers so the results are
> repeatable?

Yes, it would defeat the purpose.  Randomization is there deliberately to
minimize dubious assumptions.  And this paid off!  list.sort() is broken now
in a way it wasn't broken in 2.3, and a fixed test case probably would not
have revealed this.