On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 4:33 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > In any case, if "reservoir sampling" is the goal here, we should just add > a function `random.reservoir_sample()` to accommodate using iterators > rather than sequences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling) >
Doh! I mean *iterables* not *iterators* of course. This would actually be a reasonable and useful function to have, and sampling from dict.items() would fall out transparently from that. -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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