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samuel fiori
4,497 PointsWhat's the problem on task: "sample.py" ?? On my IDLE it runs perfect.
The Task is to "Finish the get_locations function so that it returns 3 unique values from the cells argument."
import random
def get_locations(cells):
return sample(cells, 3)
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! I'm not exactly sure why it runs on what you're using, but the sample function should be run on random which you imported earlier. This is my line that includes the sample function.
return random.sample(cells, 3)
Hope this helps!
samuel fiori
4,497 PointsYeah´, but on my IDLE I used "from random import sample" and with this method I get an NameError because random is not defined so I guess I have to use "random.sample()" when I used "import random" and otherwise just "sample()". That would make sense. If not please correct.
In all cases thank's for help!
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherThat would make sense as you imported the sample function from the random library instead of the entire library of random. Random has a lot of available functions. Take a look here. I believe that if you import a function directly, you don't need to specify that it's related to the random class. But you could have had a sample function in your own code and then wanted to use some other function in the random library. In that case, you'd have to specify that it's the sample function in the random library.