On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:44:29 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > "jordi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I need the random.sample functionality where the population grows up to >> long int items. Do you know how could I get this same functionality in >> another way? thanks in advance. > > Nothing stops you: > > >>> from random import sample > >>> a = [n**25 for n in range(6)] > >>> a > [0, 1, 33554432, 847288609443L, 1125899906842624L, 298023223876953125L] > >>> sample(a,2) > [1125899906842624L, 298023223876953125L]
No, I think he means the size of the list is big enough to need a long int. Something like xrange(10**10) or even bigger. >>> random.sample(xrange(10*10), 10) [96, 45, 90, 52, 57, 72, 94, 73, 79, 97] >>> random.sample(xrange(10**10), 10) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
