On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:10:30 am Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > Since I was the person who decided that "arbitrary" meant "give a > > different result each time", I should answer that.
> You're obviously talking about a *random* element. This is a separate > use case (though I agree many people don't know the difference). I'm aware of the difference between random and arbitrary, and in an earlier post I said that the One Obvious Way of getting a random element from a list would be to convert to a list and call random.choice(). Sorry for muddying the waters by linking to a page discussing such random selections. -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
