Doing random functions

Question

I have defined many functions in my code and I want to do a random one of them every time in a for loop.
How can I do this?

Answer 1

Here an example of calling randomly chosen (but completely different) function with randomly chosen list of different length.

https://code.sololearn.com/c7V05Nk38NlM/#py

Answer 2

You may try this :

Suppose you have 10 functions.. Number them from 1 to 10... Then, declare a list of no 1 to 10. Choose any one from them randomly and then it will call that function.

P.S. If you don't want to repeat a particular function till all are called, then delete that number from the list once it is called..

You can see an example here.

https://code.sololearn.com/cRXtxzwL9ds5/?ref=app

Answer 3

Function names can be put into an iterable like any other value. So you can store them in an iterable and choose randomly from them.

def a():
...
def b():
...
def c():
...

random.choice([a, b, c])()

Answer 4

You may find answer in https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/random-numbers-in-JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK/.

Answer 5

You should import a module name random
Import random.
And .random function will help you

Answer 6

Ahmad Tarek here is one of my codes which randomizes several games at once.
https://code.sololearn.com/cRWcG3XDpFpL/?ref=app

Answer 7

HonFu
Thank you very much you helped me a lot!
But what if one of the fuctions has one parameter or more?

Answer 8

@Ahmed Tatek
In reply to your last post (and using HonFu example code):-
import random
def a(*args):
print(*args, "Function", a.__name__, "was chosen.")

def b(*args):
print(*args, "Function", b.__name__, "was chosen.")

def c(*args):
print(*args, "Function", c.__name__, "was chosen.")

random.choice([a, b, c])(12, 13, 14)

Answer 9

How do you want to randomly choose them anyway?

(Maybe we need more info now about what you actually want to do.)

Answer 10

You already told us that. But what is the code about? What will the functions do? Why do they need different parameters?

Answer 11

@Ahmad Tarek
inside each of the functions you can do a "for in loop" and do whatever you need with them.
e.g
for x in args:
blah blah blah

Answer 12

HonFu
It was just assumig somecondition.
I have just finished my code because of your help.

Answer 13

Glad to hear that.

Can be tricky. If you want to loop, you normally need similarish conditions.

Answer 14

I guess that's pythonic.

Parameter: Bucket for a bunch of random stuff.

Function body: Sorting out all the junk before anything else.

Answer 15

rodwynnejones
But each function may have different parameters

Answer 16

HonFu
I want python to do every time a random function in a for loop