set & random.choice question

[stevecanfield]

I want to do something like this:

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

but I bet a "TypeError: unindexable object" error. Any suggestions for
an elegant workaround?

I'm using set because I want to know that I have a collection of unique
objects.

steve

[Lawrence Oluyede]

Il 2005-12-14, st***********@yahoo.com <st***********@yahoo.com> 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

--
Lawrence - http://www.oluyede.org/blog
"Anyone can freely use whatever he wants but the light at the end
of the tunnel for most of his problems is Python"

[Christophe Delord]

Hello,

On 14 Dec 2005 12:16:22 -0800, st***********@yahoo.com wrote:

I want to do something like this:

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

but I bet a "TypeError: unindexable object" error. Any suggestions for
an elegant workaround?

What about somebody = random.choice(list(x)) ?
Christophe.

[Dennis Benzinger]

st***********@yahoo.com schrieb:

I want to do something like this:

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

but I bet a "TypeError: unindexable object" error. Any suggestions for
an elegant workaround?

I'm using set because I want to know that I have a collection of unique
objects.

steve

import random

x = set(("jenny", "jacqui", "claire", "chris", "tracy"))
def draw_from_set(a_set):
random_index = random.randint(0, len(x) - 1)

for i, name in enumerate(x):
if i == random_index:
return name

somebody = draw_from_set(x)

print somebody
Bye,
Dennis

[cgriddell]

Oh duh. :)

Thanks for pointing out the obvious without mocking...

sc