On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 3:45 PM Christopher Barker <pythonchb@gmail.com> wrote:

random.choice(the_dict.keys())

is a little easier than:

random.choice(list(the_dict.keys())

Ummm... don't you mean:

random.choice(list(the_dict))

If it's keys you care about I've saved you one character over your proposed style, while also reading better to me. It's only for .items() where it doesn't work. And honestly, just looking up the value from the random key is not hard.

In any case, if "reservoir sampling" is the goal here, we should just add a function `random.reservoir_sample()` to accommodate using iterators rather than sequences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling)

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