Itertools question: how to call a function n times?

[Wojciech Muła]

Matthew Wilson wrote:
> I want to write a function that each time it gets called, it returns a
> random choice of 1 to 5 words from a list of words.
>
> I can write this easily using for loops and random.choice(wordlist) and
> random.randint(1, 5).
>
> But I want to know how to do this using itertools, since I don't like
> manually doing stuff like:
>
>     phrase = list()
>     for i in random.randint(1, 5):
>
>         phrase.append(random.choice(wordlist))

Use list comprehension:

phrase = [random.choice(wordlist) for i in xrange(random.randint(1, 5))]

w.