pick randomly a certain fraction of numbers from a list

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On Saturday 15 February 2003 15:49, Alex Martelli wrote:
>
> [...describes an algorithm to select K out of N items...]
>
> You could formalize this into a proof by induction, but I'll leave it
> at this "handwaving" level.  Point is, the Python solution is pretty
> trivial given this algorithm, e.g (warning, untested code):
>
> [...untested code...]
>

Isn't this a good recipe for Python's Cookbook?
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Carlos Ribeiro
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