Richard Brodie R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk
Fri Feb 14 13:44:12 EST 2003

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"Yuval" <yuvalfeld at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Does anybody know a quick way of picking randomly x% of elements from a list.

Quick in what sense? Taking a slice from random.shuffle(list) would be a quick and
dirty way, if not the most elegant algorithm.

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