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

Below line will randomly select n number of rows out of the total existing row numbers from the dataframe df without replacement.

df=df.take(np.random.permutation(len(df))[:n])