I have a program where I would like to randomly pull a line from a song, and string them together with other lines from other songs. Looking into I saw that the dateutil library might be able to help me parse multiple variables from a string, but it doesn't do quite what I want.
I have multiple strings like this, only much longer.
"This is the day\nOf the expanding man\nThat shape is my shade\nThere where I used to stand\nIt seems like only yesterday\nI gazed through the glass\n..."
I want to randomly pull one line from this string (To the page break) and save it as a variable but iterate this over multiple strings, any help would be much appreciated.
assuming you want to pull one line at random from the string you can use choice from the random module.
random. choice ( seq ): Return a random element from the non-empty sequence seq. If seq is empty, raises IndexError.
from random import choice
data = "This is the day\nOf the expanding man\nThat shape is my shade\nThere where I used to stand\nIt seems like only yesterday\nI gazed through the glass\n..."
my_lines = data.splitlines()
my_line = choice(my_lines)
print(my_line)
OUTPUT
That shape is my shade