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+		<title>Python tip 5: random choice and sample</title>
+		<published>2022-01-25T00:00:00+00:00</published>
+		<updated>2022-01-25T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
+		<link href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/tips/python-tip-5/" type="text/html"/>
+		<id>https://learnbyexample.github.io/tips/python-tip-5/</id>
+		<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple of commonly used methods for the built-in &lt;code&gt;random&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; module:&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;choice()&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; method helps you get a random element&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;sample()&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; method helps you get a &lt;code&gt;list&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; of a specific count of random elements&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
+&lt;&#x2F;ul&gt;
+&lt;pre style=&quot;background-color:#f5f5f5;&quot;&gt;
+&lt;code&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#72ab00;&quot;&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; import &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;random
+&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#72ab00;&quot;&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;nums &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#72ab00;&quot;&gt;= &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;[&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;1&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;4&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;5&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;2&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;51&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;3&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;6&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;22&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;]
+
+&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#72ab00;&quot;&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;random.&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#5597d6;&quot;&gt;choice&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;(nums)
+&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;3
+
+&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#72ab00;&quot;&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;random.&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#5597d6;&quot;&gt;sample&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;(nums, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#5597d6;&quot;&gt;k&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#72ab00;&quot;&gt;=&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;4&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;)
+[&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;51&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;2&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;3&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;1&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;]
+
+&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#72ab00;&quot;&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;random.&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#5597d6;&quot;&gt;sample&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;(&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b39f04;&quot;&gt;range&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;(&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;1000&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;), &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#5597d6;&quot;&gt;k&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#72ab00;&quot;&gt;=&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;5&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;)
+[&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;490&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;26&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;9&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;745&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;, &lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#b3933a;&quot;&gt;919&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#1f1f1f;&quot;&gt;]
+&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;&lt;&#x2F;code&gt;&lt;&#x2F;pre&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;&#x2F;images&#x2F;info.svg&quot; alt=&quot;info&quot; &#x2F;&gt; Both these methods will work on any sequence object. The &lt;code&gt;sample()&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; method also accepts a &lt;code&gt;set&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; object, but that will be deprecated.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;&#x2F;images&#x2F;info.svg&quot; alt=&quot;info&quot; &#x2F;&gt; See my &lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;learnbyexample&#x2F;100_page_python_intro&quot;&gt;100 Page Python Intro&lt;&#x2F;a&gt; ebook for a short, introductory guide for the Python programming language.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
+</content>
+	</entry>
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 		<title>Brag post: Hacker News Front Page entries</title>
 		<published>2022-01-21T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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 		<title>Customizing pandoc to generate beautiful pdf and epub from markdown</title>
 		<published>2020-07-21T00:00:00+00:00</published>
-		<updated>2021-08-27T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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 		<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Either you&#x27;ve already heard of &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; or if you have searched online for &lt;code&gt;markdown&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;pdf&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; or similar, you are sure to come across &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;&#x2F;code&gt;. This tutorial will help you use &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; to generate &lt;code&gt;pdf&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;epub&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; from a &lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.github.com&#x2F;gfm&#x2F;&quot;&gt;GitHub style markdown&lt;&#x2F;a&gt; file. The main motivation for this blog post is to highlight what customizations I did to generate &lt;code&gt;pdf&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;epub&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; versions for &lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;books&#x2F;&quot;&gt;self-publishing my ebooks&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;. It wasn&#x27;t easy to arrive at the set-up I ended up with, so I hope this will be useful for those looking to use &lt;code&gt;pandoc&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; to generate &lt;code&gt;pdf&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;epub&lt;&#x2F;code&gt; formats. This guide is specifically aimed at technical books that has code snippets.&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
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 &lt;li&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fastai&#x2F;fastdoc&quot;&gt;fastdoc&lt;&#x2F;a&gt; — the output of fastdoc is an asciidoc file for each input notebook. You can then use asciidoctor to convert that to HTML, DocBook, epub, mobi, and so forth&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
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+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedigitalcatbooks.com&#x2F;maubook-introduction&#x2F;&quot;&gt;Mau&lt;&#x2F;a&gt; — template-based markup language, heavily inspired by AsciiDoc&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;
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 <li>See also <a href="https://github.com/fastai/fastdoc">fastdoc</a> — the output of fastdoc is an asciidoc file for each input notebook. You can then use asciidoctor to convert that to HTML, DocBook, epub, mobi, and so forth</li>
 </ul>
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+<li><a href="https://www.thedigitalcatbooks.com/maubook-introduction/">Mau</a> — template-based markup language, heavily inspired by AsciiDoc</li>
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+                    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;tips&#x2F;python-tip-5&#x2F;">Python tip 5: random choice and sample</a>
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         <h1 id="list-of-all-tips"><p style="color: #c05b4d">List of all tips</h1>
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+<li><a href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/tips/python-tip-5/">Python tip 5: random choice and sample</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/tips/vim-tip-3/">Vim tip 3: auto complete words and lines in Insert mode</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/tips/cli-tip-4/">CLI tip 4: serialize file contents to a single line</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/tips/python-tip-4/">Python tip 4: comparison chaining</a></li>