Question

Any suggestion for random sample generation? I need to pick random 100 items from a large list every time I run it. I can do it by just comparing IDs of items and looping until count reaches a 100, but I am wondering if there are any built in features that can simplify this process.

Answer 1

You want random.sample(population, k).

Return a k length list of unique elements chosen from the population sequence. Used for random sampling without replacement.