[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Im at the end of chapter 3 of "Python Programming For The Absolute > Beginner, Michael Dawson " and he asks to make a fortune program that > displays a fortune each time its ran, and to have 5 unique fortunes. > > Whats confusing is that, he never discussed how to do this. The only > thing he talked about was using random.randrange() and I tried that > with text but it seems like its only for integers as it complains when > I put text in the argument. > > So how would I go about have 5 strings, and running a program that will > randomly pick one of those to print? > > I think he may have forgot to cover something?
Well, randrange can be used to do this, but random.choice is more pythonic. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list