Greetings Marcus,
Peter Otten has also responded, recommending itertools. I think
both he and I are not sure how you wish to generate your result list
(or lists). But, I have a comment or two.
dear pythonistats
as a newcomber I want to create a set of lists containing n items, for
example n = 3: (['a','b','c'], ['a','d','e'].......).
The sequence of items in each list should be different. If the letters
'a'........'z' are used and n = 3 there is a maximum of 301 lists.
The following code works only for lists containing 1 item:
import random
list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd',....... 'z']
I would recommend against using the name "list". The name list is a
Python builtin which creates a list(). Try it at the interactive
prompt:
>>> list()
[]
So, I'd recommend changing that name to "l" or "result" or something
like that.
random.shuffle(list)
for x in list:
print x
how can I solve my task wit n items ?
Thank you for help, Marcus.
You are using random. Do you want n randomly selected items from
the input list? The random module provides random.sample() to
select n items from a sequence.
If so, try this out at the intercative prompt. Perhaps this is what
you are looking for?
>>> import random
>>> import string
>>> l = list(string.lowercase)
>>> random.sample(l, 7)
['z', 'h', 'e', 'n', 'c', 'f', 'r']
Best of luck,
-Martin
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Martin A. Brown
http://linux-ip.net/
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