[Tutor] read a random line from a file

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:20:29PM -0500, Kirk Bailey wrote:
> OK, I know there is a simple way to do it, and I cannot locate the
> correct ommand. I want to open a flat text file, read ONE randomly
> selected line into a string, and close the file. I need the command for
> reading a line at random, and what module it is in. I understand there
> is such a command already defined, and it is simple to use, but canot
> find it again.


#!/usr/bin/env python2

import os, sys, random

proj = os.path.expanduser("~/.t/p")
f = open(proj)
projects = []
lines = f.readlines()
for l in lines:
    if l.strip():
        projects.append(l)
print random.choice(projects),

It's good if file isn't too large..

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