On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > from itertools import dropwhile > > j = dropwhile(lambda j: j in selected, > iter(lambda: int(random() * n), object())) > .next() > > kind of ugly, makes me wish for a few more itertools primitives, but I > think it expresses reasonably directly what you are trying to do.
Nice, although a bit opaque. I think I prefer it as a generator expression: j = next(j for j in iter(partial(randrange, n), None) if j not in selected) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
