ast wrote: > Hello > > random.choice on a set doesn't work because sets are > not indexable > > so I found nothing better than taking an element and > puting it back > > a = {5, 7, 8, 3, 0, 8, 1, 15, 16, 34, 765443} > elt = a.pop() > a.add(elt) > > any better idea, in a single instruction ?
>>> next(itertools.islice(a, random.randrange(len(a)), None)) 0 While this gives you a random element I agree that it's not nice in every other aspect. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list