Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, eltower wrote: > > > Generate a random number from 0 to 6 > > Insert this random number to the end of a list unless the number is > > already there > > finish with a len(list) = 7 > > > > so far, I have this: > > > > import random > > > > random_list = [] > > > > while len(random_list) < 8: > > Well, you said yourself that you finish with a list of length 7. And you > are doing this as long as your list is shorter than 8. 7 < 8 is always > true → infinite loop. > > > j = random.randrange(6) > > if (j in random_list): > > continue > > else: > > random_list.append(j) > > continue > > > > print random_list > > > > > > however, I get stuck in an infinite loop. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Do you know `random.shuffle()`? > > In [4]: random_list = range(7) > > In [5]: random.shuffle(random_list) > > In [6]: random_list > Out[6]: [1, 4, 6, 2, 5, 0, 3] > > Same effect but more efficient than your approach. > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack'
Holey moley. random.shuffle() seems to be just the answer that I needed, thank you very much :) Adri -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
