Paul Rubin schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: >>> given length. You could get a 6/49 lotto tip with something like: >>> choice(set(range(49)).powerset(6)) >> And that would be better than the current random.sample(range(49),6) in >> WHAT ways, exactly...? > > I think the first one would be incorrect since it samples with > replacement. At least, it looks like it does.
No, the elements of the powerset would be sets with 6 elements each, not tuples. So technically, it would be correct. Just horribly inefficient. -- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
