pools = [tuple(pool) for pool in args] * repeat
return tuple(random.choice(pool) for pool in pools)
- def random_permuation(iterable, r=None):
+ def random_permutation(iterable, r=None):
"Random selection from itertools.permutations(iterable, r)"
pool = tuple(iterable)
r = len(pool) if r is None else r
def random_combination(iterable, r):
"Random selection from itertools.combinations(iterable, r)"
pool = tuple(iterable)
- return tuple(sorted(random.sample(pool, r), key=pool.index))
+ n = len(pool)
+ indices = sorted(random.sample(range(n), r))
+ return tuple(pool[i] for i in indices)
def random_combination_with_replacement(iterable, r):
"Random selection from itertools.combinations_with_replacement(iterable, r)"
pool = tuple(iterable)
- return tuple(sorted(map(random.choice, repeat(pool, r)), key=pool.index))
+ n = len(pool)
+ indices = sorted(random.randrange(n) for i in range(r))
+ return tuple(pool[i] for i in indices)
Note, many of the above recipes can be optimized by replacing global lookups
with local variables defined as default values. For example, the