Trying to use sets for random selection, but the pop() method returns items in order

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:49:21 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Carl Banks <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> writes:
>> Instead, call random.shuffle() on the list, and iterate through that to
>> get the elements in random order.
> 
> It's better to use random.sample() than random.shuffle().

Why?


-- 
Steven