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What can I do to ensure that the second argument in random.sample is randomized?

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answered 2021-10-11 21:00:00 +0000

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To ensure that the second argument in random.sample is randomized, you can use another method to generate a random number that will serve as the second argument. One way to do this is to use the random.randint method to generate a random integer between 0 and the length of the iterable (minus 1, if starting at index 0), and use that integer as the second argument for random.sample. Here's an example:

import random my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] random_length = random.randint(1, len(my_list)) my_sample = random.sample(my_list, random_length) print(my_sample) 

In this example, random_length is a randomly generated integer that will be used as the second argument for random.sample. This ensures that the second argument will always be randomized, and that the resulting sampled list will have a random length.

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