Random from Dictionary

Mikael Olofsson mikael at isy.liu.se
Thu Oct 18 10:11:32 EDT 2001


On 18-Oct-2001 Tim Payne wrote:
 >  I've always gotten this error when trying choice. I figured you just
 >  couldn't use it on a dictionary, but maybe something else is wrong with
 >  my install?
 >  
 >  Traceback (most recent call last):
 >    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
 >    File "/usr/lib/python2.1/random.py", line 329, in choice
 >      return seq[int(self.random() * len(seq))]
 >  KeyError: 1

Couldn't you use it on yourdict.keys()?

/Mikael

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