I have a list which comprises of simple random arithmetic problems for teachers to give to their pupils. This list must be a set length (if the teacher asks for 10 questions, they should get 10 questions), but should not have any duplicates.
I've seen the use of sets, but this reduces the size of the list, when I have to have a fixed length. Is there a quick way of checking if a string is already within a list without iterating over the items of the list (which will slow the application down slightly)? TIA Adam -- http://www.monkeez.org PGP key: 0x7111B833 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
