Random row selection in Pandas dataframe

Question

Is there a way to select random rows from a DataFrame in Pandas.

In R, using the car package, there is a useful function some(x, n) which is similar to h

Answer 1

Something like this?

import random

def some(x, n):
    return x.ix[random.sample(x.index, n)]

Note: As of Pandas v0.20.0, ix has been deprecated in favour of loc for label based indexing.