Re: [Tutor] lottery problem (Was Re: (no subject))

2014-12-19 Thread Peter Otten
Adam Jensen wrote: Side note: if one were to only import specific functions from a module, would the load time and memory consumption be smaller? Example, is: from random import randint, seed smaller and faster than: import random Basically from random import randint, seed is

Re: [Tutor] lottery problem (Was Re: (no subject))

2014-12-19 Thread Adam Jensen
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:32:15 +0100 Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote: Basically from random import randint, seed is equivalent to import random randint = random.randint seed = random.seed del random From that you can deduce that the whole random module is loaded into memory in

[Tutor] lottery problem (Was Re: (no subject))

2014-12-18 Thread Alan Gauld
On 18/12/14 21:10, Abdullahi Farah Mohamud wrote: hello i need help with a program and i dont understand what is wrong Please always add a meaningful subject line. when the computers asks the user if he would like to go again and the user says yes, it asks for the number of lines and then

Re: [Tutor] lottery problem (Was Re: (no subject))

2014-12-18 Thread Adam Jensen
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:55:49 + Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: You could have used a list instead of all the individual variables line[0] = ... line[1] = ... But then you could get clever and use a loop: while lines != 0: start = 1 period = 7 for lineNum

Re: [Tutor] lottery problem (Was Re: (no subject))

2014-12-18 Thread Adam Jensen
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:27:03 -0500 Adam Jensen han...@riseup.net wrote: And to build the 'lines' list (although, this is getting rather ugly): lines = [[random.randint(x,x+6) for x in range(1,50,7)] for i in range(7)] Oops, in the context of the original program this might make more sense