Trying to use sets for random selection, but the pop() method returns items in order
Mario Garcia
Mariosky at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 17:34:51 EDT 2009
Im trying to use sets for doing statistics from a data set.
I want to select, 70% random records from a List. I thougth set where
a good idea so I
tested this way:
c = set(range(1000))
for d in range(1000):
print c.pop()
I was hoping to see a print out of random selected numbers from 1 to
1000
but I got an ordered count from 1 to 1000.
I also tried using a dictionary, with keys from 1 to 10, and also got
the keys in order.
Im using:
Python 2.5.2 |EPD 2.5.2001| (r252:60911, Aug 4 2008, 13:45:20)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin
Examples in the documentation seem to work. But I cant make it.
Can some one, give me a hint on whats going on?
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