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Gerard Nwazk
Courses Plus Student 2,833 Pointsplease whats wrong with my code its not passing...
need help its not passing or could
# EXAMPLE
# random_item("Treehouse")
# The randomly selected number is 4.
# The return value would be "h"
from random import randint
def random_item(items):
return items[randint(0,len(items)-1)]
3 Answers
Ari Misha
19,323 PointsHiya Gee! You're pretty much overcomplicating stuff which leads to error. Okay this is how your code should look like:
import random
def random_item(words):
num = random.randint(0, len(words)-1)
return words[num]
or if you wanna be crazy and execute in couple of lines, you could do it this way(I'd prefer the above code though):
import random
def random_item(words):
return words[random.randint(0, len(words)-1)]
Gerard Nwazk
Courses Plus Student 2,833 PointsAw..! works perfectly this time thanks @ Misha...
Jayden Hassan
3,099 PointsI don't really understand that but thx