How to randomly select an item from a list?

Question

Assume I have the following list:

foo = [\'a\', \'b\', \'c\', \'d\', \'e\']

What is the simplest way to retrieve an item at random from thi

Answer 1

This may already be an answer but you could use random.shuffle. Example:

import random
foo = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
random.shuffle(foo)