2009/1/29 garywood <python...@sky.com>: > I had a task in a book to pick 5 items from a list of 26 ensuring the items > are not repeated > > > import random > list = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m', > 'n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z'] > word = ' ' > a = random.choice(list) > list.remove(a) > b = random.choice(list) > list.remove(b) > c = random.choice(list) > list.remove(c) > d = random.choice(list) > list.remove(d) > e = random.choice(list) > list.remove(e) > word = a + b + c + d + e > print (word) > print(list) > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > There are probably several ways to do that, e.g.:
>>> lst = >>> ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z'] >>> randomized_list = lst[:] >>> random.shuffle(randomized_list) >>> randomized_list[:5] ['n', 'p', 'e', 'f', 'y'] >>> (better not name a variable like a builtin - list) hth, vbr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
