N.O button press to generate 4 random GPIO outputs

[stlavguy]

I am very much a beginner as in this is my first raspberry pi project. I’m in a time crunch and happen to have a raspberry pi laying around my office, as it may not be the best product for what is needed I was hoping I could reach out and have a member of this community help me (please please)
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 model B here and what I would like to have is: I would like to press a single N.O button and trigger a random closure of 1 of the GPIO outputs.... as in each time I momentarily press the button I get a momentary closure of one of 4 GPIOs randomly. If this is not possible with the Pi alone I have a 4 relay shield that could be used for this. (It could be better actually) I would love the support and an excited for this to spring board me into programming these things more.
Again thank you ahead of time for the help.

[pcmanbob]

Hi.

Yes what you want to do should be possible.

put this together off the top of my head its untested so it may not work, but it should give you a starting point.

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import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
import random
GPIO.setup(6, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(13, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(19, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(26, GPIO.OUT)

GPIO.setup(23, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)

matrix = [6, 13, 19, 26]
try:
    print  " Start "
    while True:
    
        # waiting for button press
        while GPIO.input(23) == 1:
            time.sleep(0.5)
            
        print "Button is pressed."
        num = random.randint(1,4)
        pin = matrix [num]
        GPIO.output(pin,1)
        
        # waiting for button release
        while GPIO.input(23) == 0:
            time.sleep(0.5)
            
        print "Button is release."
        GPIO.output(pin,0)
        
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    GPIO.cleanup()      
    

if it works, it should wait for the press of the button connected to gpio 23 and then select on of the 4 output gpio's ( 6,13,19,26 ) and switch it on while ever the button is pressed.