Multiple disjoint sample sets?
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Fri Jan 11 09:36:57 EST 2013
On 2013-01-11 14:15, Roy Smith wrote:
> I have a list of items. I need to generate n samples of k unique items
> each. I not only want each sample set to have no repeats, but I also
> want to make sure the sets are disjoint (i.e. no item repeated between
> sets).
>
> random.sample(items, k) will satisfy the first constraint, but not the
> second. Should I just do random.sample(items, k*n), and then split the
> resulting big list into n pieces? Or is there some more efficient way?
>
> Typical values:
>
> len(items) = 5,000,000
> n = 10
> k = 100,000
>
I don't know how efficient it would be, but couldn't you shuffle the
list and then use slicing to get the samples?
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