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Kennedi Armstrong
883 PointsWhat am I missing?
You've seen how random.choice() works. It gets a random member from an iterable (like a list or a string). I want you to try and reproduce it yourself. First, import the random library. Then create a function named random_item that takes a single argument, an iterable. Then use random.randint() to get a random number between 0 and the length of the iterable, minus one. Return the iterable member that's at your random number's index. Check the file for an example.
# EXAMPLE
# random_item("Treehouse")
# The randomly selected number is 4.
# The return value would be "h"
import random
def random_item(list):
item = random.randint(0, len("list") - 1)
return item
1 Answer
james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Pointsyou are taking the length of the string 'list', not the parameter list. then, you are returning the random number, not the letter of the passed-in word at the index of the random number. in the example, 'Treehouse'[4] = h because h is the 5th letter (4th index) in the word Treehouse. your return should utilize slice notation the same way.