On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 7:09:23 PM UTC, Ian wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Dylan Riley <dylan.ri...@hotmail.com> 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"].
>
> Remember that strings are iterable, and that iterating over strings
> results in individual characters. That should give you a clue as to
> what's going on.
>
> > 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
>
> Addition on a list does concatenation, not appending. So this takes
> each element from choice and adds them individually to order.
hi ian what would be the correct code to use in this situation then because as
far as i am aware the elements of my list should be printed as whole elements
and not just characters of the elements.
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