#!/usr/bin/env python3
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"""Random function identical to random.choice(), but pop() that item

>>> ex = ["Hello", "World"]
>>> choice_pop(ex)
'Hello'
>>> ex
['World']
"""

__all__ = ['choice_pop']
__author__ = "Cody A. Taylor ( codemister99@yahoo.com )"
__version__ = "2.0"

import _random

def choice_pop(seq):
    """Randomly pops a single item out of a sequence
    """
    return seq.pop(int(_random.Random().random() * len(seq)))