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Get random sample from list while maintaining ordering of items? I have a sorted list, let say: (its not really just numbers, its a list of objects that are sorted with a complicated time consuming algorithm) mylist = [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ,9 , 10 ] Is there some python function that will give me N of the items, but will keep the order…
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# Following code will generate a random sample of size 4.
rand_smpl = [ mylist[i] for i in sorted(random.sample(xrange(len(mylist)), 4)) ]
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