Question

Let’s say I have a list in python with several strings in it. I do not know the size. How can I run a loop to do an operation on 2 random elements of this string?

What if I wanted to favour a certain subset of the strings in this randomization, to be selected more often, but still make it possible for them to not be chosen?

Answer 1

you need to look into random module. It has for example a random.choice function that lets you select a random element from a sequence or a random.sample that selects given number of samples, it’s easy to account for different weights too.