Opening random line from file with random.shuffle()

[Duncan Smith]

"synthespian" <synthespian at uol.com.br> wrote in message
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> Hello-
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> I need to get a random line from a file. I read in thins NG about a
"poorly" documented random.shuffle(), but I can't get it to work:
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> #!/usr/local/bin/python2.0
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> import random
> file = open('/xxxx/yyy/zzz.txt')
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> allLines = file.readlines()
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> file.close()
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> getLine = random.shuffle(allLines)
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Shuffles it in place and returns None.  Try,

getLine = random.choice(allLines)


> print getLine,
> string = str(getLine)
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> print string,
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> All I get as output is
> "None None"
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> Thanks for __any__ help!
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> Regs
> Henry
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