how to generate list of sequence number in faster way using python

Question

Anyone can improve processing time to generate list of sequence number? Here is my code and it needs ~ 0.05 second.

import torch
import time
import random
index = [torch.tensor(660000)]
st = time.time()
allowed = [x for x in range(index[0])]
index = random.sample(allowed, 1000)
print(time.time()-st)

Please advise

thank you

Answer 1

This should help with OP specific case, not with "generate list of sequence number" stated in question title.

You do not need to create whole list, you can provide the range, this will work with same speed regardless of range size.

index = random.sample(range(index[0]), 1000)

On my machine it is ~100x faster for range size 1 million

---

Based on this answer