I'm extracting some information from a CSV file into a list and would like a random value to be picked from that list. However, that value must exist within a specified range. For example, if I have a list like so:
[12, 100, 144, 50, 65, 30, 500, 450, 6]
and I have a range 55-300, I want to be able to randomly select any value from within this list that satisfies the range. Say, 100, 144 or 65 but never 12, 6, 30, etc.
I haven't been able to find the solution to this anywhere, and the random module doesn't seem to have any functionality that supports this directly.
random.randrange() only produces a value from within a range, random.choice() only selects one element from a list, no range applies to it.
I'm essentially looking for a functionality that can possibly combine the two functions.
You can filter the numbers in your list to find the ones in the appropriate range, and pick one at random from those.
lst = [12, 100, 144, 50, 65, 30, 500, 450, 6]
number = random.choice([n for n in lst if 55 <= n <= 300])