On 2021-01-02, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > The following might /not/ be good programming style, > but addresses the idea to choose a "variable". > I kinda like the below one. > import random > animal = ['koala', 'kangaroo'] > fruit = ['banana', 'apple'] > kinds = ['animal','fruit'] > variable = random.choice( kinds ) > result = random.choice( globals()[ variable ]) > print( result ) >
> Otherweise, I'd go this way without a dictionary. > import random > animal = ['koala', 'kangaroo'] > fruit = ['banana', 'apple'] > kinds = [animal,fruit] > kind = random.choice( kinds ) > result = random.choice( kind ) > print( result ) > I had that solution in mind but I thought that one is not good programming style or not Pythonin :-) -- Thanks > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
