Python3: Use Dateutil to make multiple vars from a long string

Question

I have a program where I would like to randomly pull a line from a song, and string them together with other lines from other songs. Looking into I saw that the dateutil library might be able to help me parse multiple variables from a string, but it doesn't do quite what I want.

I have multiple strings like this, only much longer.

"This is the day\nOf the expanding man\nThat shape is my shade\nThere where I used to stand\nIt seems like only yesterday\nI gazed through the glass\n..."

I want to randomly pull one line from this string (To the page break) and save it as a variable but iterate this over multiple strings, any help would be much appreciated.

Is multiple variables at a time required or do you just need a random line from that concatenated string..? — mbeacom, Dec 09 '19 at 13:34
What aspect of this problem are you asking about? What, if any, aspects have you already addressed? — Scott Hunter, Dec 09 '19 at 13:35

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 09 '19 at 13:37

assuming you want to pull one line at random from the string you can use choice from the random module.

random. choice ( seq ): Return a random element from the non-empty sequence seq. If seq is empty, raises IndexError.

from random import choice
data = "This is the day\nOf the expanding man\nThat shape is my shade\nThere where I used to stand\nIt seems like only yesterday\nI gazed through the glass\n..."
my_lines = data.splitlines()
my_line = choice(my_lines)
print(my_line)

OUTPUT

That shape is my shade

Python3: Use Dateutil to make multiple vars from a long string

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