Hi Kevin,
kevin parks wrote:
> I am trying to write a loop that iterates over a sequence and do
> something x number of times. But sometimes i will need more events
> (larger number x) than i have have items in the sequence, so if i need
> more events that i have stuff in my sequence i would like to have the
> loop reload and shuffle the deck and start all over again, reloading as
> many times as necessary to get the number of events needed. I suppose i
> could go around cyclically modulo the list size but i would want to
> shuffle the deck before doing that again...
>
Why not save the iterable it in the generator, then just reuse it? You
can copy the iterable like this:
import random
def cycle(iterable):
saved = list(iterable)
#notice how I saved into a list, for I could not shuffle a TUPLE!
while True:
for element in saved:
yield element
random.shuffle(saved)
def test():
seq = ('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven',
'eight', 'nine', 'ten')
loop = cycle(seq)
count = 1
for item in range(25):
print count, loop.next()
count = count + 1
#you could use enumerate() instead of manually making the loop here.
#for i, v in enumerate(loop):
# print i, v
Hope that helps,
Hugo
if __name__ == '__main__':
test()
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