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Shraddha
Shraddha

Reputation: 183

Generating Random Sequence of a string

I have to write a python code which should take two sequences (s1,s2) generate random strings for sequence 2 (s2) for a given number of trials in python and return both strings (s1 fixed, s2 changed) for each trial. For ex:

input seq: [aabcc,aabcc]
Output seq for 4 trials:

Trial1:[aabcc, aabcc]
Trial2:[aabcc, aaabc]
Trial3:[aabcc, aaaaa]
Trial4:[aabcc, ccaab]

It is like generating random sequence from the given input sequence for the given number of trials. Can someone help me code this using basic for and while loops in python? (i.e no built in functions).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 215

Answers (3)

Pete Suchsland
Pete Suchsland

Reputation: 11

S1 is obviously easy to return. s2 can be turned into a list and shuffled:

s2 ="aabbcc"
import random
h = list(s2)

random.shuffle(h)

newString = ''.join(h)
print (newString)

Upvotes: 0

Hugh Bothwell
Hugh Bothwell

Reputation: 56624

import random

# if you can't use random.choice, this is a one-for-one substitute
def random_choice(seq):
    """
    Return a random element from a non-empty sequence
    """
    return seq[int(random.random() * len(seq))]

def random_string_from_sample(s, length=None):
    """
    Return a random string based on the letter-distribution in s
    """
    if length is None:
        length = len(s)
    return ''.join(random_choice(s) for _ in range(length))

def main():
    s0, s1 = "aabcc", "aabcc"
    trials = 4
    for i in range(1, trials+1):
        print("Trial{}:[{}, {}]".format(i, s0, random_string_from_sample(s1)))

if __name__=="__main__":
    main()

produces:

Trial1:[aabcc, bbaca]
Trial2:[aabcc, cbaac]
Trial3:[aabcc, cacac]
Trial4:[aabcc, caacc]

Upvotes: 1

M4rtini
M4rtini

Reputation: 13539

This solution extracts the unique characters, so the result won't be weighted against the characters with higher frequency in the input. If you don't want that behavior, just remove the conversion to set. 

from random import randint

s = "aabbcc"

chars = list(set(s))
nchars = len(chars)
trials = 4 

for i in range(trials):
    rng_sample = ''.join([chars[randint(0,nchars-1)] for _ in range(len(s))])
    print rng_sample

Upvotes: 0

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