List operation: Removing an item
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Apr 16 01:37:44 EDT 2006
"Miguel E." <miguest66REMOVE at REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1243ikb79qbujfc at corp.supernews.com...
> Hi,
>
> I've been (self) studying Python for the past two months and I have had
> no background in OOP whatsoever.
>
> I was able to write an interactive program that randomly selects an item
> from a list. From a Main Menu, the user has the option to add items to
> an empty list, show the list, run the random selector, and of course
> quit the program. The program also complains if a user tries to add an
> item that is already in the list prompting the user to enter another
> item.
Do you really need the items sorted? I strongly suspect that a set would
work better. Much easier to randomly add, delete, and check membership.
Terry Jan Reedy
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