oh :S ok im sorry...i will change that thenthanks
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:19:50 -0400
> From: d...@davea.name
> To: computer_dud...@hotmail.com
> CC: tutor@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] simple random string generator
>
> On 09/17/2012 05:40 PM, Matthew Dalrymple wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Did you look for bugs before trying to time it? For example, did you
> >> intend that it test the sizes from 10 thru 195 in steps of 5, or did you
> >> intend from 10 to 100, as you stated in your first post?
> >>
> >> Would you care to add a docstring to those functions to indicate what
> >> they're intended to do? i think maybe the anagramSolutionX functions
> >> are supposed to return True if the two strings contain the same letters
> >> (including the same number of duplicates) in an arbitrary order.
> >>
> >> Are you interested in faster algorithms for such a comparison? I think
> >> that function could be implemented in two lines of Python, using only
> >> builtin functions. And that includes the def line.
> >>
> >> Did you intend to put the timings for anagramSolution2 into solu1, and
> >> the timings for anagramSolution1 into solu2, and thus print them out in
> >> reverse order? it makes it hard to see what difference incremental
> >> changes might make.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> DaveA
> >> its for a class...we were given the anagramSolutionX functions...we have
> >> to comapre those using time.time() and get accurate reading by running
> >> each function at least 10000 times to each word from 10 to 100 in steps of
> >> 5. i went up to 200 just to see if one would increase faster as the number
> >> increased but it didn't...also i realized i had the solutions labled wrong
> >> so i was starting to switch them and didnt finish :S sorry... before i
> >> started trying to time it, it ran creating words from 10-100 in steps of
> >> 5... make sense? the assignment we were given was to create a mkword(n)
> >> function and get it to generate the strings from 10-100 in steps of 5 and
> >> check to see which solution would be faster...
> >
> >
>
> Do you realize the the difference between open-ended and closed? When
> you put the 200 there, the last one it'll do is 195. Likewise, if you
> said range(10, 100, 5), it would stop at 95. That's why Steven had the
> +1 in his first message.
>
>
>
> --
>
> DaveA
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