Re: set & random.choice question

Il 2005-12-14, stevecanfield@xxxxxxxxx <stevecanfield@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
> I want to do something like this:
>
> from random import choice
> x = set(("jenny", "jacqui", "claire", "chris", "tracy"))
> somebody = random.choice(x)

import random
x = set(("jenny", "jacqui", "claire", "chris", "tracy"))
somebody = random.choice(list(x))

You must turn back it into a list, set has no notion of indexing

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