Selecting a Random list?

Question

So I have 3 lists:

a = [] b = ["a", "b", "c"] c = ["d", "e", "f"]

how can I randomly select either list b or c and import it into list a?

Thanks.

Answer 1

To get random elements from sequence objects such as lists (list), tuples (tuple), strings (str) in Python, use choice(), sample(), choices() of the random module.

The choice() method returns one random element, and the sample() and choices() methods return a list of multiple random elements. The sample() is used for random sampling without replacement, and choices() is used for random sampling with replacement.

The random method — Generate random numbers.

import random
l = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
print(random.choice(l))

Answer 2

Use random.choice:

import random

a = ['foo']
b = ['bar', 'quux']
c = ['spam', 'eggs']

a.extend(random.choice([b, c]))

a will end up being either ['foo', 'bar', 'quux'] or ['foo', 'spam', 'eggs'] .