set & random.choice question

Lawrence Oluyede raims at dot.com
Wed Dec 14 15:28:36 EST 2005


Il 2005-12-14, stevecanfield at yahoo.com <stevecanfield at yahoo.com> ha scritto:
> I want to do something like this:
>
>   from random import choice
>   x = set(("jenny", "jacqui", "claire", "chris", "tracy"))
>   somebody = random.choice(x)

import random
x = set(("jenny", "jacqui", "claire", "chris", "tracy"))
somebody = random.choice(list(x))

You must turn back it into a list, set has no notion of indexing

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