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MicroPython Cookbook

You're reading from   MicroPython Cookbook Over 110 practical recipes for programming embedded systems and microcontrollers with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838649951
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marwan Alsabbagh Marwan Alsabbagh
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting started with MicroPython FREE CHAPTER 2. Controlling LEDs 3. Creating Sound and Music 4. Interacting with Buttons 5. Reading Sensor Data 6. Button Bash Game 7. Fruity Tunes 8. Let's Move It, Move It 9. Coding on the micro:bit 10. Controlling the ESP8266 11. Interacting with the Filesystem 12. Networking 13. Interacting with the Adafruit FeatherWing OLED 14. Building an Internet of Things (IoT) Weather Machine 15. Coding on the Adafruit HalloWing Microcontroller 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Randomly selecting cities

In this recipe, we will use the random module to randomly select cities from a fixed list of cities. We first create a global variable called CITIES to store these values. We can then use a specific function in the random module that is for the specific purpose of selecting random items from a list of values.

The recipe will then loop 10 times and make a random selection from the list of cities and output details of the selected city. This recipe will be particularly useful to you whenever you have a project that needs to select a certain option randomly from a fixed list of values. You might, for example, create a dice-rolling MicroPython project that should choose from the values one to six on each roll.

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