306 If you want to randomly select more than one item from a list, or select an item from a set, I'd recommend using random.sample instead.

Mar 18, 2012 · I tried using random.randint(0, 100), but some numbers were the same. Is there a method/module to create a list unique random numbers?

I have a function which reads a list of items from a file. How can I select only 50 items from the list randomly to write to another file? def randomizer (input, output='random.txt'): query = open (

Sep 18, 2016 · -2 In Python how can I choose two or more random numbers from a given list,such that the numbers are chosen in the same sequence they are arranged in the list they are …

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In Python 3.x, the objects returned by methods dict.keys(), dict.values() and dict.items() are view objects, which cannot be used directly with random.choice. One option is to pass …

This is so much faster than numpy.random.choice . Picking from a list of 8 weighted items 10,000 times, numpy.random.choice took 0.3286 sec where as random.choices took 0.0416 sec, …

Given a list of probabilities like: P = [0.10, 0.25, 0.60, 0.05] (I can ensure that the sum of all the variables in P is always 1) How can I write a function that randomly returns a valid index,

Mar 12, 2015 · I just picked up image processing in python this past week at the suggestion of a friend to generate patterns of random colors. I found this piece of script online that generates a …

On my machine, random.sample goes from being slower than random.choice to being faster than it as the set size grows (the crossover point is somewhere between set size 100k-500k).