Jonathan M Davis:
> You do seem to try to do a lot of things that most other folks never even 
> think 
> of doing, let alone have a need to. This is one of them.

Choosing few random chars out of a sequence of possible chars is very normal in 
Python, it's even a common thing.


> I've found that if you want a string out of array(), what you need to do is 
> to!string(array(...))).

I see.


> if you're trying to grab random characters from 
> a string, that's likely to work best with a dstring because it supports 
> random 
> access, so there's a decent chance that dstring is really what you want 
> anyway,

This may be right. But as I have tried to explain two times, you may end up 
having string-processing code made mostly of dstrings.

Bye,
bearophile

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