> a golf course has 18 holes. There are three types of hole - par 3, par 4 > and par 5. For a certain type of tournament it is necessary to generate > a random list of 6 holes. The only condition is that this list should > contain at least one of each type of hole. What would be an elegant way > of doing this. Sample data for Ooty golf course is given below. The hole > number is the first element of each tuple and the par is the second > element.
This is my solution - http://dpaste.org/wrgG8/ Mine is similar to Gora's solution, except that I have tried to maintain the actual probabilities of each par in the course and minimise the number of passes through the list. It shouldn't matter much for a small list though. Regards, BG -- Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose at gmail.com _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
