hehe, I think you made a similar copy&paste mistake than me :D
328 should be 382
You can use random.sample then you don't need to check for duplicates:
from random import sample
nums = [373, 135, 30, 375,
126, 411, 416, 64,
73, 382, 66, 128,
418, 21, 23, 425]
sel = []
while sum(sel) != 1000:
sel = sample(nums, 5)
print(sorted(sel))
Ah whoops fixed that now. Thank you for letting me know. I tend to mistype and misread numbers a lot, so I'm not super surprised I messed that up :)
I could have done it using random samples, but I had assumed there might be multiple solutions, so I wanted to iterate over all possible ones instead. That solution does work too.
Also, I looked back at itertools's documentation and realized I missed that there is a
itertools.combinationsfunction I missed that would work as well and make the code I had simpler.