Random Item Selection from a List

This function allows for the random selection of an item from a list. It first uses the shuffle function from the random module to generate a random order iterator, then it uses the islice function from the itertools module to get the first item from the iterator.

Technology Stack : random, itertools, collections

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def random_select(items):
    import random
    import itertools
    from collections import deque

    def shuffle(items):
        result = deque(items)
        while result:
            index = random.randrange(len(result))
            yield result.pop(index)

    return itertools.islice(shuffle(items), 1)[0]

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