Thank you all for your input it was extremely helpful. Robert you were spot on with what I was trying to do, I tried to implement the random.sample earlier but I couldn't see to get it too work -- running smoothly now.
Sorry for the trouble :) On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Robert Sjoblom <robert.sjob...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I can't figure out > > 1) How to remove "y" from the list and continue the loop; when I use > .remove > > etc. it runs once then give me the error that "y" is not in the list. > > > > I imagine the answer is quite simple I'm just getting really frustrated > > trying to get this done any advice is appreciated. > > This should tell you why you run into your error: > > >>> message = "This is a message." > >>> m_list = message.split() > >>> m_list > ['This', 'is', 'a', 'message.'] > >>> y = random.choice(m_list) > >>> y > 'message.' > >>> m_list.remove(y) > >>> m_list > ['This', 'is', 'a'] > >>> y > 'message.' > > You should probably move your y = random.choice() into the while loop. > > A simpler way than to remove items from a list is to use random.sample: > >>> message = "This is a message." > >>> m_list = message.split() > >>> random.sample(m_list, len(m_list)) > ['is', 'This', 'a', 'message.'] > > -- > best regards, > Robert S. >
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