It’s inevitable that you need to work with lists in your day-to-day job.
A list of users. A list of store items. A list of objects.
One potentially rare task that you may need to do is get a random element in a list.
There can be many ways that you can use to do that, but in this article, I am going to share 2 ways that can hopefully be helpful.
1. Using random.randint()
You have probably used methods from the random library already, trying to get a randomized numerical value that you may need to do some initializations, or adding some randomness for certain random keys.
There is also a method that you can use to get random integers. You can set a range of integers so that we don’t just get a truly random integer in an infinite range. We need to limit it to the length of the list.
Here is the snippet:
2. Using choice()
This is a method that is prepared specifically to help us with getting a random number in a list without having to deal with the indexes.
All we have to do is import the module and then call it:
Yes, it’s that simple. No need to tinker with the indexes and having to set up the range of integers, or anything.
That’s pretty much it.
I hope you find this helpful.
