From 0f7214ba1c3dc9272393ac9d3437ef4ebaa7925e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Isabelle Viktoria Maciohsek Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:45:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update sample --- snippets/sample.md | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/snippets/sample.md b/snippets/sample.md index f4dd49529..d8f43d0ea 100644 --- a/snippets/sample.md +++ b/snippets/sample.md @@ -5,14 +5,13 @@ tags: list,random,beginner Returns a random element from a list. -- Use `random.randint()` to generate a random number that corresponds to an index in the list, return the element at that index. -- [`random.sample()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html#random.sample) provides similar functionality to this snippet. +- Use `random.choice()` to get a random element from `lst`. ```py -from random import randint +from random import choice def sample(lst): - return lst[randint(0, len(lst) - 1)] + return choice(lst) ``` ```py