How should a certain percentage of evenly-distributed elements of a Python list be extracted?
问题 I have a list of data points. For the full run of my program, I'll use all of the data points, but for testing of the code, I want to use only a small percentage of them in order that the program run in a short time. I do not want simply to take the first n elements of the list, though; I want to select an even distribution of the elements from the list. So, if I'm using 50% of the data points, I might want to select from the list of data points every second data points. Basically, I want to