while and if

[Satchidanand Haridas]

Calvin79 wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm very new to python, but believe in learning from examples. So could
>someone please help me with this?
>
>I choose a number of 'things' I want 
>
>Number = input("Number of things (1-8)? ")
>things = ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7',\
>'8']
>
>>From there I want to take at random a letter and do this n times depending
>on the number I gave.
>
>choice = choice('abcd')
>
>The final answer if say the number had been 5 to look something like;
>
>choice 1 = d
>choice 2 = c
>choice 3 = a
>choice 4 = d
>choice 5 = b
>etc...
>
>I can sort of see how to use the while loop for int but not to keep
>choosing from the list and lable it choice 1 etc...
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Calvin 
>
>  
>
The following code does what I think you want to do:

<code>
import random

things = range(int(raw_input("Number of things (1-8)? ")))

for x in things:
    print "choice ",x+1, " is ", random.choice('abcd')

</code>

Regards,
Satchit


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