r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> writes: >>values = [*range(100)] > > In many cases, any iterable is just fine and a list is not > required, just as peudo-random numbers often are just fine and > real-world entropy is not required.
In this case both are. I must select (several times) a random element from the list. So I need the list. I also want the randomness to be as good as possible to make the 'simulation' as good as possible. > Usually one wants to write code for readability, and thinking > too much about runtime efficiency optimizations is in vain, > because one might get different results with a different > version of Python or on a different machine. That is why I went for the less efficient code. ;-) -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
