Thanks All for your responses, all a help!
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On 03/11/2011 12:21 PM, noydb wrote:
I am just looking to see if there is perhaps a more efficient way of
doing this below (works -- creates two random teams from a list of
players). Just want to see what the experts come up with for means of
learning how to do things better.
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import random
Catenate the lists into a new list. Then randomize the order of the new
list by iterating over each element in turn, swapping it with a random
element elsewhere in the same list (optionally including swapping it with
itself - that's easier and still gives good randomization). This gives
linear ti
noydb wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am just looking to see if there is perhaps a more efficient way of
> doing this below (works -- creates two random teams from a list of
> players). Just want to see what the experts come up with for means of
> learning how to do things better.
>
> Thanks for any
On Mar 11, 1:21 pm, noydb wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am just looking to see if there is perhaps a more efficient way of
> doing this below (works -- creates two random teams from a list of
> players). Just want to see what the experts come up with for means of
> learning how to do things better.
>
You can use sets:
teamA = set(random.sample(players, 4))
teamB = set(players) - teamA
HTH
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Hello All,
I am just looking to see if there is perhaps a more efficient way of
doing this below (works -- creates two random teams from a list of
players). Just want to see what the experts come up with for means of
learning how to do things better.
Thanks for any responses!
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import random
