Hi Ganesh, > Any better suggestion to improve this piece of code and make it look more > pythonic?
import random # A list of tuples. Note that the L behind a number means that the number is a 'long'. data = [(1, 1, 373891072L, 8192), (1, 3, 390348800L, 8192), (1, 4, 372719616L, 8192), (2, 3, 382140416L, 8192), (2, 5, 398721024L, 8192), (3, 1, 374030336L, 8192), (3, 3, 374079488L, 8192), (3, 5, 340058112L, 8192)] item = random.choice(data) # Select a random item from the 'data' list. msg = "%d,%d,%d:%d" % item # Format it in the way you like. print msg Greetings, -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list