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A/B testing & experimentation

User bucketing, experiment metrics, statistical comparison, and rollout guardrails.

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How to Create a Sticky Consistent Mock with unittest.mock in Python

Shows how to use unittest.mock.patch.object to mock a method consistently across multiple calls, returning a sticky value every time.

unittest mock testing
Python
from unittest.mock import patch

class Database:
    def fetch(self, key):
        return f"real value for {key}"

def get_value(db, key):
    return db.fetch(key)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    db = Database()
    with patch.object(db, "fetch", return_value="sticky value") as mock_fetch:
        result1 = get_value(…
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How to Do Random Assignment in Python for A/B Tests

Assign each item to a binary group (0 or 1) with uniform probability using a small reusable function, optionally weighted, for A/B testing mocks.

random ab-testing assignment
Python
import random

def random_assignment_uniform_mock(items, weights=None):
    """Assign each item to a group (0 or 1) with uniform probability."""
    if weights is None:
        # Default: each item independently gets 0 or 1 with 50% probability
        return [random.randint(0, 1) for _ in items]
    # Optional weight…
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How to Hash a User ID to an Experiment Bucket in Python

Deterministically map a user ID to one of N experiment buckets using MD5 hashing and modulo arithmetic.

hashing ab-testing bucketing
Python
import hashlib

def hash_to_bucket(user_id: str, num_buckets: int = 10) -> int:
    """Deterministically map a user_id to a bucket (0 to num_buckets-1)."""
    digest = hashlib.md5(user_id.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
    return int(digest[:8], 16) % num_buckets

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Mock experiment: split…
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How to hash user IDs to experiment buckets in Python

Deterministically map a user ID to an experiment bucket using MD5 hashing, ensuring stable and consistent assignment for A/B testing.

hashing ab-testing experiments
Python
import hashlib


def hash_user_to_bucket(user_id: str, num_buckets: int = 10) -> int:
    """Deterministically map a user ID to an experiment bucket (0..num_buckets-1)."""
    digest = hashlib.md5(user_id.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
    return int(digest, 16) % num_buckets


if __name__ == "__main__":
    mock_users …
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