On Jul 1, 4:34 pm, Mario Garcia <mario...@gmail.com> wrote: > Im trying to use sets for doing statistics from a data set. > I want to select, 70% random records from a List. I thougth set where > a good idea so I > tested this way: > > c = set(range(1000)) > for d in range(1000): > print c.pop() > > I was hoping to see a print out of random selected numbers from 1 to > 1000 > but I got an ordered count from 1 to 1000. > I also tried using a dictionary, with keys from 1 to 10, and also got > the keys in order. > > Im using: > Python 2.5.2 |EPD 2.5.2001| (r252:60911, Aug 4 2008, 13:45:20) > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin > > Examples in the documentation seem to work. But I cant make it. > Can some one, give me a hint on whats going on?
Sets don't help. Try this: >>> import random >>> c = range(100) >>> c [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99] >>> random.shuffle(c) >>> c [78, 62, 38, 54, 12, 48, 24, 20, 8, 14, 1, 69, 49, 92, 41, 64, 17, 35, 88, 40, 73, 45, 5, 84, 96, 90, 98, 57, 51, 75, 99, 13, 29, 4, 97, 77, 74, 56, 91, 95, 59, 79, 89, 19, 9, 42, 31, 85, 86, 23, 27, 50, 6, 21, 15, 80, 3, 30, 87, 82, 16, 63, 2, 55, 37, 33, 10, 61, 93, 72, 60, 67, 44, 65, 11, 70, 52, 58, 47, 18, 36, 66, 94, 28, 22, 68, 32, 76, 53, 25, 83, 34, 26, 71, 39, 43, 7, 46, 0, 81] >>> for d in c: print c.pop(), 81 0 46 7 43 39 71 26 34 83 25 53 76 32 68 22 28 94 66 36 18 47 58 52 70 11 65 44 67 60 72 93 61 10 33 37 55 2 63 16 82 87 30 3 80 15 21 6 50 27 Notice that the numbers are coming out in the exact reverse order of the list, because you used .pop() without an index number. But it's ok in _THIS_ example, because the list was randomly shuffled before popping. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list