random picks from a list

[Gerrit Holl]

Rogue9 wrote:
> I´m working on a program for lottery analysing and need to generate
> random numbers from a filtered list of numbers i.e. I have reduced the
> likely ¨winning¨ numbers to a smaller pool and have them in a list. How
> do i use the random funtion in Python to pick random numbers from this
> list?Is this the use of the seq argument in the random function?
> The documentation does not cover the use of all the arguments available
> for this function and my attempts to use if have been a failure.

Just two more cents here:
As of Python 2.3, you can do random.sample(seq, k):

 40 >>> seq
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
 41 >>> random.sample(seq, 10)
['I', 'D', 'u', 'O', 'W', 'H', 'A', 'a', 's', 't']

yours,
Gerrit.

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