While doing image processing using python, I wanted to select image file randomly from images folder. I found couple of ways of doing this but following is the simplest way to get random file name
import os import random path ='/code/github/python' files = os.listdir(path) index = random.randrange(0, len(files)) print(files[index])
Thanks, your answer inspired me!
I’m afraid the program might have a bug since randrange() method excludes the last item if the sequence.
I think the bug could be resolved by just adding a +1 to it:
index = random.randrange(0, len(files)+1)
I. also, found that Python has some more convenient sampling methods in the same library i.e. random.sample(population, k) which is used to select k number of elements from a population without replacement. Likewise, random.choices() is used to select items with replacement.
Anyhow, thanks a million. Your answer did help me.