How to randomly select an item from a list?

Question

Assume I have the following list:

foo = [\'a\', \'b\', \'c\', \'d\', \'e\']

What is the simplest way to retrieve an item at random from thi

Answer 1

If you also need the index, use random.randrange

from random import randrange
random_index = randrange(len(foo))
print(foo[random_index])