Hi Slava,
Since your k is only 10, here is a quickie:
import numpy as np
arr = np.arange(n)
for i in range(k):
np.random.shuffle(arr)
print np.sort(arr[:p])
If your ever get non-unique entries in a set of k=10 for your n and p,
consider yourself lucky:)
Val
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<li...@onerussian.com>wrote:
> Hi to all Numeric Python experts,
>
> could not think of a mailing list with better fit to my question which
> might
> have an obvious answer:
>
> straightforward (naive) Python code to answer my question would be
> something like
>
> import random, itertools
> n,p,k=100,50,10 # don't try to run with this numbers! ;)
> print random.sample(list(itertools.combinations(range(n), p)), k)
>
> so the goal is to get k (non-repeating) p-subsets of n, where n and p
> prohibitively large to first populate the full set of combinations.
>
> Thank you in advance ;-)
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