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Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple

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On 2/9/2015 6:52 PM, james8booker@hotmail.com wrote:
> import random
> RandomNum = random.randint(0,7)
> restraunt = raw_input("What's your favourite takeaway?Pizza, Chinease or Indian?")
> if restraunt == ("Pizza"):
>      fav = ("1")

As a style note, putting parentheses around strings is worse than useless.

> elif restraunt == ("Chinease"):
>      fav = ("2")
>
> elif restraunt == ("Indian"):
>      fav = ("3")
>
> else:
>      print("Try using a capital letter, eg; 'Chinease'")
>
> Menu = [["Barbeque pizza","Peparoni","Hawain"],["Curry","Noodles","Rice"],["Tika Masala","Special Rice","Onion Bargees"]]
>
> print Menu[fav,RandomNum]
>                     ^
> TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple
>
> How do I set a variable to a random number then use it as a list indece, (I'm only a student in his first 6 months of using python)
>


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple james8booker@hotmail.com - 2015-02-09 15:52 -0800
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-02-09 16:02 -0800
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-02-09 22:05 -0500
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-02-09 23:48 -0500
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-02-10 00:57 -0500
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Ryan Stuart <ryan.stuart.85@gmail.com> - 2015-02-10 00:05 +0000
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-10 11:35 +0000
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-02-10 09:28 -0500
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-10 14:32 +0000
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 01:33 +1100
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-02-10 10:51 -0500
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 05:48 +1100
  Re: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-02-10 15:38 -0500

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