Random Column Names Generator for SQLAlchemy Tables

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Code introduction


This function accepts an SQLAlchemy table object as an argument and returns a random list of column names from the table.


Technology Stack : SQLAlchemy, inspect, random.sample

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate


                
                    
def generate_random_column_names(table):
    """
    Generates a random list of column names for a given SQLAlchemy table.
    """
    import random
    from sqlalchemy import inspect

    # Get all column names from the table
    columns = inspect(table).columns.keys()
    # Shuffle the column names
    random_columns = random.sample(columns, len(columns))
    return random_columns