Random row selection in Pandas dataframe

Question

Is there a way to select random rows from a DataFrame in Pandas.

In R, using the car package, there is a useful function some(x, n) which is similar to head but selects, in this example, 10 rows at random from x.

I have also looked at the slicing documentation and there seems to be nothing equivalent.

Update

Now using version 20. There is a sample method.

df.sample(n)

Answer 1

This below code will work:

import random

def some(x, n):

    return x.ix[random.sample(x.index, n)]

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