On Saturday, September 28, 2013 12:43:42 AM UTC, [email protected] wrote:
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All the comments about using an image to ask for help over here is extremely
valid so I hope you accept it in good faith. I am a noob like you so I can
tolerate it and see if I can help you.
So here we go:
1. random.randit will only return an integer but it sounds to me like you are
trying to return one of the elements in "chars"
If my understanding is correct try using random.choice instead.
To return a random character from the alphabets you can try:
>> import string
>> char = random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase)
#string.ascii_uppercase for uppercace
2. you may not need the main() function.
and you didn't have any 'print' statement so when you run the code you won't
see anything. You are simply generating random characters and throwing them away
try:
print (random_characters(8))
3. but if you run the code as it stands it won't generate 8 random charaters so
you'll actually have to be appending it on a list.
So instead of:
new_string = ''
try:
new_string = []
4. Finally, join the elements in the list once they are generated like this:
return "".join(new_string)
but don't forget to append each character anytime the loop runs this way:
new_string.append(random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase))
Overall I wrote my own version of the code and this is what I got:
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import string
import random
def random_characters(number):
i = 0
new_string = []
while (i < number) :
new_string.append(random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase))
i = i + 1
return "".join(new_string)
print(random_characters(3))
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