I wrote this short program for my grandson: from random import sample
soups = ['Onion soup', 'Veggie soup', 'Chicken soup', 'Corn soup'] salads = ['Veggie', 'Onion', 'Cabbage', 'Lettuce', 'Caesar', 'Tomato'] main = ['Crab cake', 'Catfish', 'Ribs', 'Chopped liver', 'Meat balls'] beverage = ['Wine', 'Rum', 'Lemonade', 'Red bull', 'Margarita', 'Jin'] def dish(soups): return (sample(soups, 1)) print('Soup:\t\t', dish(soups)) print('Salad:\t\t', dish(salads)) print('Main dish:\t', dish(main)) print('Beverage:\t', dish(beverage)) A possible output could be: Soup: ['Chicken soup'] Salad: ['Caesar'] Main dish: ['Meat balls'] Beverage: ['Wine'] How do I get rid from the square brackets and the quotation marks in the output? Thank you. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor