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25 changes: 0 additions & 25 deletions Doc/library/itertools.rst
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# first_true([a,b], x, f) --> a if f(a) else b if f(b) else x
return next(filter(pred, iterable), default)

def random_product(*args, repeat=1):
"Random selection from itertools.product(*args, **kwds)"
pools = [tuple(pool) for pool in args] * repeat
return tuple(map(random.choice, pools))

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
return tuple(random.sample(pool, r))

def random_combination(iterable, r):
"Random selection from itertools.combinations(iterable, r)"
pool = tuple(iterable)
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)
n = len(pool)
indices = sorted(random.choices(range(n), k=r))
return tuple(pool[i] for i in indices)

def nth_combination(iterable, r, index):
"Equivalent to list(combinations(iterable, r))[index]"
pool = tuple(iterable)
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31 changes: 31 additions & 0 deletions Doc/library/random.rst
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Recipes
-------

These recipes show how to efficiently make random selections
from the combinatoric iterators in the :mod:`itertools` module:

.. testcode::
import random

def random_product(*args, repeat=1):
"Random selection from itertools.product(*args, **kwds)"
pools = [tuple(pool) for pool in args] * repeat
return tuple(map(random.choice, pools))

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
return tuple(random.sample(pool, r))

def random_combination(iterable, r):
"Random selection from itertools.combinations(iterable, r)"
pool = tuple(iterable)
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)
n = len(pool)
indices = sorted(random.choices(range(n), k=r))
return tuple(pool[i] for i in indices)

The default :func:`.random` returns multiples of 2⁻⁵³ in the range
*0.0 ≤ x < 1.0*. All such numbers are evenly spaced and are exactly
representable as Python floats. However, many other representable
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