Global seeding does not work as expected

Consider the following code:

import unittest
import random

from mimesis import Food

class Test(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_food(self):
        f = Food("en")
        print(">>", f.dish())

if __name__ == "__main__":
    random.seed("123")
    unittest.main()

I would expect that for consecutive runs the same dish is printed but it’s not:

>> Macaroni and Cheese
.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.001s

OK

Press ENTER or type command to continue
>> Ploye
.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.001s

OK

The question now is whether that is expected behavior? I know there is a specific seed for each Provider. Because I find it a bit annoying, requiring me to jump a few more hoops to get this under test.

>> python --version
Python 3.5.3
>> pip freeze|grep mime
mimesis==1.0.4

[kairichard]

@duckyou Thanks for effort you put into answering my question. Now I feel a bit ashamed noticing that my initial example is a bit misleading. I am using your awesome lib to produce names for things and I have an integration test that verify things get names. What I wanted to do is hardwire the test output. Something like this:

import unittest
import random

from service import App

class Test(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_names(self):
        result = App.create_thing()
        self.assertEqual(result.name, "ice-cream")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    random.seed("123")
    unittest.main()

HTH. What I am currently doing is seeding via os.env somewhere in service which is ok for now. Thanks again for answering my questions.

[lk-geimfari]

@duckyou Can you advise anything, please?