Season 2: The Python Team · Episode 3 of 8
Someone Already Built It
You play: AI Engineering Trainee
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The situation
Code Nexus needs repeatable random sampling for a fairness audit and some system metadata for a bug report. 8-BIT proposes writing a random-number generator from scratch "for full control".
What you'll learn
- PCAP 1.1-1.5: import forms, qualified names, module search path, `__name__` / `if __name__ == '__main__'`, selected `math` / `random` / `platform` calls, and building your own package.
- The platform module (system, machine, python_version), dir() on a module and sys.path.
Who you work with
Maya Chen
Senior AI Engineer · Your mentor
Kabelo Mokoena
Platform and DevOps Engineer
Scenes
- 1.Don't reinvent random
- 2.Qualified names
- 3.Reproducible sampling
- 4.The package that won't import
- 5.The shadowed module
- 6.Modules and packages check
What you leave with
The fairness audit now samples reproducibly with a seeded `random.Random` instance, you can predict what each import form binds, and you found why `import random` was importing the wrong file.