If you're restricted to the standard library, and you want to generate a lot of random integers, then random.choices() is much faster than random.randint() or random.randrange(). 2 For example …

random.seed(a, version) in python is used to initialize the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG). PRNG is algorithm that generates sequence of numbers approximating the …

Feb 2, 2017 · The random () method is implemented in C, executes in a single Python step, and is, therefore, threadsafe. The _random is a compiled C library that contains few basic …

As of Python 3.6 you can use the secrets module, which is preferable to the random module for cryptography or security uses. To print a random element from a list:

The way the question is presented at the moment it isn't clear whether or not you only want the date or the time to be random. Your example suggests that you are looking for a time. If it has …

Check out random.sample() which will select and return a random element from an list. You can get a list of dictionary keys with dict.keys() and a list of dictionary values with dict.values().

Mar 24, 2017 · Is there a simple way in Python to generate a random number in a range excluding some subset of numbers in that range? For example, I know that you can generate a random …

Jul 17, 2012 · Absolutely true, If somewhere in your application you are using random numbers from the random module, lets say function random.choices() and then further down at some …

Nov 27, 2017 · 28 On the random module python page (Link Here) there is this warning: Warning: The pseudo-random generators of this module should not be used for security purposes. Use …

On my machine, random.sample goes from being slower than random.choice to being faster than it as the set size grows (the crossover point is somewhere between set size 100k-500k).