Random from Dictionary

[Emile van Sebille]

Maybe choice in random helps out.

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Tim Payne" <doshea at mac.com> wrote in message
news:4f7234de.0110180504.20aa475b at posting.google.com...
> I've been browsing the message archives for some time looking for an
> answer to this question, but I didn't find anything useful. Maybe you
> guys could help me out.
>
> I'm trying to obtain x number of random unique items from a
> dictionary. This would have been easy to do with a list, but I need
> the dictionary for other parts of the script.
>
> I've tried popitem(), but arbitrary values just aren't good enough. I
> need something that is random. Are there any other functions that I've
> missed, or will I have to create my own? If so, any suggestions on a
> clean way to do this? I've spent the better part of the morning trying
> different ideas, but they were either too slow, or the code was a huge
> mess by the time I was done. At one point, my function for random
> values was larger than the program itself.
>
> If you could just point me in the best direction to go, I'll probably
> be able to figure out the rest on my own.
>
> Thanks.