CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonrandomshuffle
Inkblot
Inkblot

Reputation: 738

How to make random.shuffle truly random?

So I have this list:

words = ["Games","Development","Keyboard","Speed","Typer","Anything","Alpha","Zealous","Accurate","Basics","Shortcut","Purpose","Window","Counter","Fortress","Modification","Computer","Science","History","Football","Basketball","Solid","Phantom","Battlefield","Advanced","Warfare","Download","Upload","Antidisestablishmentarianism","Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious","Discombobulation","Liberated","Assassin","Brotherhood","Revelation","Unity","Syndicate","Victory"]

And I have this which shuffles it and displays it on a label:

entry.delete(0, tkinter.END)
random.shuffle(words)
label.config(text=str(words[1]))
timeLabel.config(text="Time: " + str(time_score)+ "s")

I'd like to know how to make this shuffle truly random because it feels like I'm getting the same word over and over again despite there being a lot in the list. Maybe there is a way to remove a value from the list once it's been taken from it so it can't be shown again?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 222

Answers (2)

grael
grael

Reputation: 655

You can try:

import random
random_word = random.choice(words)

to choose random word from your array. Then you can do:

words.remove(random_word)

to remove this randomly selected word from array to avoid getting it again if you want to get next random word.

Edit - answer to the comment

When I run this code below I'm getting different word every time. Is this the logic you are looking for?

words = ["Games","Development","Keyboard","Speed","Typer","Anything","Alpha","Zealous","Accurate","Basics","Shortcut","Purpose","Window","Counter","Fortress","Modification","Computer","Science","History","Football","Basketball","Solid","Phantom","Battlefield","Advanced","Warfare","Download","Upload","Antidisestablishmentarianism","Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious","Discombobulation","Liberated","Assassin","Brotherhood","Revelation","Unity","Syndicate","Victory"]

import random
while words:
    random_word = random.choice(words)
    print(random_word)
    words.remove(random_word)

Upvotes: 3

Rory Yorke
Rory Yorke

Reputation: 2236

A variation @grael's solution is to shuffle, and then use list.pop to remove items. There's no need to shuffle your list more than once.

In [54]: words = ['foo','bar','baz','quux','bizby','squiggle']

In [55]: random.shuffle(words)

In [56]: while words: print(words.pop())
bizby
bar
foo
baz
squiggle
quux

Upvotes: 4

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