Using Python 'random' module
The 'random' module is a built-in Python module that provides functions to generate random numbers.
You can use the random.sample() function from the 'random' module to get random elements from a list.
Return type of random.sample() function is list.
Python list does not have any built-in method to get random elements from a list.
Getting random elements from a list using random.sample() function
1. Import random module to use its functions using the code (import random). Here 'import' is a keyword and 'random' is the name of the module.
2. Create a list of integer (int_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]) where int_list is the list variable and [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] is the list with integer (whole number) elements.
3. Use random.sample() function to get random elements from the list. In the following first example, the code "random_sample = random.sample(int_list, 1)" is used to get a list of 1 random element from the list where the parameter 'int_list' is the list variable and parameter 1 specifies the number of random elements to be returned.
You can specify the number of elements to be returned in the parameter as shown in the second example (random_sample_3 = random.sample(int_list, 3)). It returns a list of 3 random elements from the list.
Please take a closer look at the following examples:
