How to choose a random value from a list in robot framework?

Question

I have a list of variables,

@{Example} = One Two Three

I want the list of variables, randomly choose an item from the list.

Answer 1

The simplest solution is to call python's random.choice method with the built-in Evaluate keyword. You can use robot's extended variable syntax to pass the list of choices into the function.

Here's a short example that will print a random value to stdout each time you run it:

*** Variables ***
@{Example}  One  Two  Three

*** Test Cases ***
Example
    ${value}=  Evaluate  random.choice($example)  random
    log to console  \nvalue: ${value}