On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 12:58:30 PM UTC-6, Dylan Riley wrote:
> hi all,
> I have been trying to figure out all day why my code is printing single
> characters from my list when i print random elements using random.choice the
> elements in the list are not single characters for example when i print,
> print(LIST[random.choice]) i get:
> ["e", "x", "a", "m", "p", "l", "e"] when i should get ["example"].
>
> my code is:
> #Create a program that prints a list of words in random order.
> #The program should print all the words and not repeat any.
>
> import random
>
> LIST = ["blue ", "red ", "yellow ", "green ", "orange "]
> order = []
>
> print("This game will print a random order of colours")
> print("The list is", LIST)
> input("press enter to start")
>
>
>
> while LIST != []:
> choice = random.choice(LIST)
> order += choice
> while choice in LIST:
> LIST.remove(choice)
> print(order)
>
>
>
> input("press enter to exit")
>
> thanks in advance guys
You could just shuffle the list first, then loop through it. This will
guarantee that each color is only used once.
import random
LIST = ["blue ", "red ", "yellow ", "green ", "orange "]
random.shuffle(LIST)
for color in LIST:
print(color)
# or add to order or whatever you need to
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