[Newbie] List from a generator function

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Paul Rubin  <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> print list(islice(starmap(random.choice, repeat((possible_notes,))), length))

Why the use of starmap() rather than
imap(random.choice, repeat(possible_notes))
?

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