What's the best way to think about this?

I am new to python and I have heard a lot about "Pythonic" work arounds to common tasks. I wrote the following script for a project I'm working on where it needed to pick a random string from a list of strings and break the string into a key and value. The script worked for that purpose but it got me wondering about the way senior developers think about coding.

As a senior developer, how would you think about solving a similar problem?

• What approach would you take in writing this type of script and why?

• How would you decide on the modules to use?

• What did I do wrong or right and why?

• Would you write the code as fast as possible or spend more time on it?

'''

import random
import re

def add_list(wordlist):
    newword = str(re.split("=", random.choice(wordlist)))
    print(newword)
    output = open('Logfile.txt', 'a')
    output.write("\n" + newword)
    return output

add_list(wordlist = ['1=one', '2=two', '3=three', '4=four',])

'''