Use random file

February 7, 2022

I have this piece of code:

com = "node file1.js {var1} {var2} {var3} {var4} {var5}".format(
    var1 = self.CURRENTENTRY[0],
    var2 = self.CURRENTENTRY[1],
    var3 = self.CURRENTENTRY[2],
    var4 = self.CURRENTENTRY[3],
    var5 = ",".join(elist)
)

I would like to use more .js files (file2.js, file3.js, …, filex.js) and let the script to chose one at random each time.

>Solution :

Use following code.

import random

files = ['file1.js', 'file2.js', 'file3.js']

filename = random.choice(files)
com = "node {filename} {var1} {var2} {var3} {var4} {var5}".format(
        filename,
        va1 = self.CURRENTENTRY[0],
        var2 = self.CURRENTENTRY[1],
        var3 = self.CURRENTENTRY[2],
        var4 = self.CURRENTENTRY[3],
        var5 = ",".join(elist)
    )