How to randomly choose an item from a Python dictionary?

Question

I would like to know how to randomly choose an item from a Python dictionary?

For example:

I have the dictionary

dic = {'Pedro': 99, 'João': 19, 'Rosa': 35, 'Maria': 23}

and need to choose an item randomly.

Answer 1

One way to do this in Python 3 is to get a view of the dictionary items and use the function random.choice to choose an element.

import random
dic = {'Pedro': 99, 'João': 19, 'Rosa': 35, 'Maria': 23}
name, id = random.choice(list(dic.items()))

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