Reputation: 5477
Let's say I have to variables, dog and cat. Dog = 5, and cat = 3. How would I tell Python to pick one of these variables by random and print it to the screen?
Upvotes: 4
Views: 31411
Reputation: 1
I tried out the first method and second method, and none of them worked. So I am using a version of python which is 3.0, and this is the only thing that actually worked. The solutions are deprecated. Not true, wrong post.
Here is the working solution:
import random
dog = str([5])
cat = str([3])
variables = dog, cat
print(random.sample(variables, 1))
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 4879
You can put all the variables you want to choose from in a list and use the random module to pick one for you.
import random
dog = 5
cat = 3
vars = [dog,cat]
print random.sample(vars, 1)
The sample method takes two arguments: the population you want to choose from, and the number of samples you want (in this case you only want one variable chosen).
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 76955
import random
print random.choice([dog, cat])
It's that simple. choice()
takes a sequence and returns a random selection from it.
Upvotes: 13