How to randomly select an item from a list?

Question

Assume I have the following list: foo = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']What is the simplest way to retrieve an item at random from this list?

Answer 1

from random import randint

foo = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']

rand_idx = randint(0, len(foo) - 1)

print( foo[rand_idx] )