How Choose Random User from database ?

[Mustafa Burhani]

I want to Choose random user from databse is possible with django shell or need to create model ? for random function ?

Thanks !

[Joel Tanko]

if you already have a table with some rows in it, writing a random function would work just fine.

# as an example

from random import randint

def select_random_user():

    all_users = User.objects.all()

    selected = list(all_users)[randint(0, all_users.count())]

    return selected

On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 at 01:45, Mustafa Burhani <mustafab...@gmail.com> wrote:

I want to Choose random user from databse is possible with django shell or need to create model ? for random function ?

Thanks !

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[Kelvin Sajere]

If you just want a random user, you could just use random.choice(). You can use it in shell, in a function or wherever you want.

Example:

import random

users = User.objects.all() #a list of all users

random_user = random.choice(users) #a random user

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 20:45 Mustafa Burhani <mustafab...@gmail.com> wrote:

I want to Choose random user from databse is possible with django shell or need to create model ? for random function ?

Thanks !

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[mustafa burhani]

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[Scot Hacker]

If the number of records you need to choose randomly between is not huge, this works fine:

`User.objects.order_by('?').first()`

You only need turn to use a special function or method if your query takes more than a microsecond to return, or you have a ton of traffic. i.e. use the ORM for random choices with caution.

./s

[FIRDOUS BHAT]

Scot Hacker's answer is preferable

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