How to split data into trainset and testset randomly?

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
import numpy

with open("datafile.txt", "rb") as f:
   data = f.read().split('\n')
   data = numpy.array(data)  #convert array to numpy type array

   x_train ,x_test = train_test_split(data,test_size=0.5)       #test_size=0.5(whole_data)

To answer @desmond.carros question, I modified the best answer as follows,

 import random
 file=open("datafile.txt","r")
 data=list()
 for line in file:
    data.append(line.split(#your preferred delimiter))
 file.close()
 random.shuffle(data)
 train_data = data[:int((len(data)+1)*.80)] #Remaining 80% to training set
 test_data = data[int((len(data)+1)*.80):] #Splits 20% data to test set

The code splits the entire dataset to 80% train and 20% test data

This can be done similarly in Python using lists, (note that the whole list is shuffled in place).

import random

with open("datafile.txt", "rb") as f:
    data = f.read().split('\n')

random.shuffle(data)

train_data = data[:50]
test_data = data[50:]

You could also use numpy. When your data is stored in a numpy.ndarray:

import numpy as np
from random import sample
l = 100 #length of data 
f = 50  #number of elements you need
indices = sample(range(l),f)

train_data = data[indices]
test_data = np.delete(data,indices)