On Jul 1, 6:37 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes: > > If you're iterating through the whole list and don't need to preserve > > the original order (as was the case here) random.shuffle() is better. > > 1. Random.sample avoids iterating through the whole list when it can. > > 2. Say you want to choose 10 random numbers between 1 and 1000000. > > random.sample(xrange(1000000), 10) > > works nicely. Doing the same with shuffle is painful.
random.shuffle() is still better when you're iterating through the whole list as the OP was doing. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
