Remove Random Items from a list in Python with conditions

Question

I've got this situation:

A range of days (let's say work shifts), and a different number of humans that cannot cover work shifts on specifics days. Each day of the range has to be covered by two workers.

So, the newbie solution I found is that display in lists one below another the days free for each worker, with a 0 mark when they cannot work.

period_of_time = range(1,10)

human_1 = [1, 3, 4, 8, "Human 1"]
human_2 = [5, 6, "Human 2"]
human_3 = [8, 9, "Human 3"]
human_4 = [2, 4, 6, "Human 4"]

humans = [human_1, human_2, human_3, human_4]

def looping_function(in_humans):
    new = []
    for d in period_of_time:
        if d not in in_humans:
            new.append(d)
        else:
            new.append(0)
    print(str(new) + " " + human_id + "\n")

for a in humans:
    in_humans = a
    human_id = a[-1]
    looping_function(in_humans)

It's works fine.

[0, 2, 0, 0, 5, 6, 7, 0, 9] Human 1

[1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 0, 7, 8, 9] Human 2

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 0, 0] Human 3

[1, 0, 3, 0, 5, 0, 7, 8, 9] Human 4

And it's useful for now. Considering that I working on it just for learning purposes. Now I want to eliminate random items from the lists, in order to have only two humans for each day of the range. I'm stuck here.

Answer 1

Soulution with usage of your code, you have to just loop through schedule and add ids

period_of_time = range(1,10)

human_1 = [1, 3, 4, 8, "Human 1"]
human_2 = [5, 6, "Human 2"]
human_3 = [8, 9, "Human 3"]
human_4 = [2, 4, 6, "Human 4"]

humans = [human_1, human_2, human_3, human_4]

def looping_function(in_humans):
    new = []
    for d in period_of_time:
        if d not in in_humans:
            new.append(d)
        else:
            new.append(0)
    print(str(new) + " " + human_id + "\n")
    return new

schedule = []
for a in humans:

    in_humans = a
    human_id = a[-1]
    schedule.append(looping_function(in_humans))

for x in range(9):
    current_day_workers = 0
    for human in schedule:
        if human[x] != 0: current_day_workers +=1
        if current_day_workers >2: human[x] = 0

print(schedule)