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On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 12:58:30 PM UTC-6, Dylan Riley wrote:
> hi all,
> I have been trying to figure out all day why my code is printing single c=
haracters 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, p=
rint(LIST[random.choice]) i get:
> ["e", "x", "a", "m", "p", "l", "e"] when i should get ["example"].
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> import random
>=20
> LIST =3D ["blue ", "red ", "yellow ", "green ", "orange "]
> order =3D []
>=20
> print("This game will print a random order of colours")
> print("The list is", LIST)
> input("press enter to start")
>=20
>=20
>=20
> while LIST !=3D []:
>     choice =3D random.choice(LIST)
>     order +=3D choice
>     while choice in LIST:
>         LIST.remove(choice)
> print(order)
>        =20
>    =20
>    =20
> input("press enter to exit")
>=20
> thanks in advance guys

You could just shuffle the list first, then loop through it. This will guar=
antee that each color is only used once.=20

    import random
    LIST =3D ["blue ", "red ", "yellow ", "green ", "orange "]
    random.shuffle(LIST)
    for color in LIST:
        print(color)
        # or add to order or whatever you need to