Managing randomness with faker is impossible

In the case when the fields are specified over faker providers, it’s impossible to manage randomness because order of evaluation is not fixed (iterating a dict internally?). Example: Seed the random before of instantiation of

class CompanyFactory(factory.DjangoModelFactory):
    class Meta:
        model = Company

    name = faker.company
    status = 'APR'

with

import factory
faker = factory.faker.Faker._get_faker(locale='de_DE')
faker.random.seed(0)

returns the same result. But adding any other fuzzy field, for instance:

faker.phone_number

makes both fields to be filled in an unpredictable way. Maybe because the fields are evaluated in the dict iteration. It would be nice to have a work around at least.

[chongkim]

I’ve made a PR. I noticed that some PR are years old. What do I need to do to get this into master? I’d hate to have it sit around for some step I neglected to do.

[chongkim]

I’ve fixed the problem in https://github.com/FactoryBoy/factory_boy/pull/438