Random sampling simulation in python

Question

Problem: Assume we have a list of members' IDs: [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,....] I need to run 1000 simulations drawing teams of size 4 at random from all members without replacement. (drawn uniformly at random without replacement from all members)

Output: The final result should be 1000 teams with size of 4.

Thanks

Answer 1

You are looking for random.sample(population, k):

Return a k length list of unique elements chosen from the population sequence or set. Used for random sampling without replacement.

>>> import random
>>> players = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
>>> teams = [random.sample(players, 4) for _ in range(1000)]
>>> teams[0]
[8, 4, 5, 10]