Avoid non-determinstic default keyword argument appearing in documentation #12
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…ation. Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that vine could not be built reproducibly. This is due to the use of a set datatype in the default keyword arguments - this causes a problem when generating the documentation as the ordering is non-determinstic. (Mutable datatypes as default keyword arguments are also frowned upon in Python) [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/ Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk>
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Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed
that vine could not be built reproducibly. This is due to the use of a
set datatype in the default keyword arguments - this causes a problem
when generating the documentation as the ordering is non-determinstic.
(Mutable datatypes as default keyword arguments are also frowned upon in
Python)
[0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb chris@chris-lamb.co.uk