Could someone show me how I could read a random number of lines from a file in Python?
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Could someone show me how I could read a random number of lines from a file in Python?
Your requirement is a bit vague, so here’s another slightly different method (for inspiration if nothing else):
Compared with the other solutions, the number of lines varies less (distribution around half the total number of lines) but each line is chosen with 50% probability, and only one pass through the file is required.