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

The following code demonstrates if you need to produce the same items. You can also specify how many samples you want to extract.
The sample method returns a new list containing elements from the population while leaving the original population unchanged. The resulting list is in selection order so that all sub-slices will also be valid random samples.

import random as random
random.seed(0)  # don't use seed function, if you want different results in each run
print(random.sample(foo,3))  # 3 is the number of sample you want to retrieve

Output:['d', 'e', 'a']