Choosing a random file from a directory (with a large number of files) in Python

Question

I have a directory with a large number of files (~1mil). I need to choose a random file from this directory. Since there are so many files, os.listdir naturally tak

Answer 1

try this, (here is very fast with 50K files...)

import glob
import random

list = glob.glob("*/*.*")
print list[random.randrange(0,list.__len__())]