Re: [Tutor] Recursive list checking

2005-04-08 Thread joe_schmoe
Rick Muller wrote: On Apr 8, 2005, at 11:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: joe_schmoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For example, this is what I am currently doing: =code block # generate unique numbers and append to list nmbr01 = random.randrange( 1, 20 )

[Tutor] Recursive list checking

2005-04-08 Thread Rick Muller
On Apr 8, 2005, at 11:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: joe_schmoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For example, this is what I am currently doing: =code block # generate unique numbers and append to list nmbr01 = random.randrange( 1, 20 ) nmbr_list.append( n

[Tutor] Recursive list checking

2005-04-08 Thread joe_schmoe
Dear Pythonites I am looking for a more elegant solution to a piece of code that is too unwieldy and reptitive. The purpose of the code is for a new addition to a list to check whether it is a duplicate of a list element already a member of that list, and if so to regenerate itself randomly and