[Tutor] First code snipet

[Darth Kaboda]

> Subject: Re: [Tutor] First code snipet
> From: andreas at kostyrka.org
> To: darthkaboda at msn.com
> CC: tutor at python.org
> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:02:27 +0200
> 
> Some things:
> 
> 1) It's Python, not Phython.
> 2) Slightly shorter solution to your problem:
> 
> import random
> 
> input = range(53)
> random.shuffle(input)
> print input
> 
> 3) The important part here is that reimplementing something that is in
> the standard library does not make sense usually.
> 
> 4) A more sensible implementation of shuffle comes directly out of
> random.py:
> 
> def shuffle(self, x, random=None, int=int):
> """x, random=random.random -> shuffle list x in place; return
> None.
> 
> Optional arg random is a 0-argument function returning a random
> float in [0.0, 1.0); by default, the standard random.random.
> """
> 
> if random is None:
> random = self.random
> for i in reversed(xrange(1, len(x))):
> # pick an element in x[:i+1] with which to exchange x[i]
> j = int(random() * (i+1))
> x[i], x[j] = x[j], x[i]
> 
> Notice that it is not exactly optimal, one could easily replace the
> reversed(xrange()) expression with a 3 parameter version of xrange:
> for i in xrange(len(x) - 1, 0, -1):
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 
> 
> Am Samstag, den 25.07.2009, 17:15 -0700 schrieb Darth Kaboda:
> > I'm starting to learn Python as it seems to be adopted by many
> > companies that I've been looking to apply to. I used the book Learning
> > Phython to get the basics of the language and many of the gotcha's. I
> > think I know enough of the basic features of the language to start
> > playing around and can understand most code I've seen so far by
> > looking at some of the posts here.
> > 
> > The one worry I have is not coding things the Phython way as I've been
> > a Visual Basic programmer for so long and a C++ programmer before
> > that. So would like to have people look at a simplistic class
> > (shuffles lists of objects wrote it for shuffling cards but
> > with Phython could be used for any "list" type object) I wrote to give
> > me some feedback on the style of it.
> > 
> > Any feedback is appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
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Thanks for the correction not sure why I typed it that way after typing it correctly in the first sentence, must have wondered off somewhere in my mind I guess. 

 

Oops I guess I should have also mentioned what I was trying to accomplish with this class. I wanted to mimic how a deck of cards get's shuffled in the real world. i.e. split the deck and shuffle the two halves together. 

 

Brian


 
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