Python: Random selection per group

Question

Say that I have a dataframe that looks like:

Name Group_Id
AAA  1
ABC  1
CCC  2
XYZ  2
DEF  3 
YYH  3

How could I randomly select one (or m

Answer 1

Using random.choice, you can do something like this:

import random
name_group = {'AAA': 1, 'ABC':1, 'CCC':2, 'XYZ':2, 'DEF':3, 'YYH':3}

names = [name for name in name_group.iterkeys()] #create a list out of the keys in the name_group dict

first_name = random.choice(names)
first_group = name_group[first_name]
print first_name, first_group

random.choice(seq)

Return a random element from the non-empty sequence seq. If seq is empty, raises IndexError.