aleax at mail.comcast.net (Alex Martelli) writes: > > given length. You could get a 6/49 lotto tip with something like: > > choice(set(range(49)).powerset(6)) > > And that would be better than the current random.sample(range(49),6) in > WHAT ways, exactly...? I think the first one would be incorrect since it samples with replacement. At least, it looks like it does.