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probability and that's what
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random.choice does it takes in a list
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and it returns to one of those values
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randomly with equal probability because
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i've passed in two items i've got a 50
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50 chance if i passed in three items
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it'd be a 33 chance for each of those
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items and so forth python does the math
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for you but i want to store the value of
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this in a variable so let's define a
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variable called coin equals whatever the
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return value is so this is indeed like
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flipping a coin i'm going to store in a
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variable called coin whatever that value
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is heads or tails and now just so i can
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see what's going on let's go ahead and
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print out the value of that string coin
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all right let me go ahead now and run
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this program in my terminal window
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python of generate dot pi enter and it
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looks like the first coin toss was the
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heads let's go ahead and run it again
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and it looks like it was heads again
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maybe you want to chime into the chat
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here if i run it a third time what's it
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going to be this time if you want to
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type your thoughts in the chat
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you might think there's a bug here but
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this is probability in action if i go
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ahead and hit enter a third time there
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it's actually now tails and again tails
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and again tails and again tails and
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again tails and again heads now if we
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did this an infinite number of times it
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would indeed work out to be 50 50. if we
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only do it a few times it might not work
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out as cleanly but that's how
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probabilities indeed work all right so
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i've got that now working could i have
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implemented this in a different way well
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let me show you an alternative to
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actually using the import keyword alone
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and let me introduce the keyword from in
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python so from is a keyword in python
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that you can use when importing
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functions from a module but it allows
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you to be a little more specific than
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import alone so if i go back to my code
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here it's worth noting that what
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technically i'm doing here by importing
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random is i'm technically importing
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everything that's in that module so not
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just the function called random.choice
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but a few other functions as well so
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instead of using this line of code at
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the top of my file import random which
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will technically give me access to all
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of the contents they're in a downside of
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that is that i have to type in
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random.choicerandom.this random.that
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because all of the functions i'm calling
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have to be associated with the scope of
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that module well suppose that i just
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want to call the function as its name
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choice i can do that as well let me
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replace this first line here with from
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random import choice and what this does
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effectively is it loads the function's
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name choice into my current namespace
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into the scope of the file i'm working
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in what that means is that i now no
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longer have to specify which choice
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function i mean i can just say choice
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and so it loads it into the local
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namespace that is into my local
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vocabulary if you will so i can just now
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say choice this might be advantageous
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in what cases do you think when might
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you want to import the name of the
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function explicitly like this as opposed
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to just saying random.choice
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random.choice throughout your code when
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calling a function
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any instincts here for this alternative
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import
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using from
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um hello i'm mohammed ahmar from egypt
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and maybe if we have a variable that
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its name is basically like choice if i
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have a variable called the choice so i
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need to differentiate which trace i
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choose so
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i'm gonna choose random.choice
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yeah really good instincts by using the
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first approach by just importing random
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you're making sure that all of its
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contents are associated with are scoped
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to the random module so that you can
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have your own choice function you can
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have your own choice variable you can
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