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Mpesiths
Mpesiths

Reputation: 173

How can I create a dictionary in python that has random letters as keys with no duplicates?

This is my code:

I create some random letters and I store them in variables, then I use this variables as keys in the dictionary. The problem is that the keys are duplicates because of the random letters. How can I fix that? 

a = random.choice(string.ascii_letters).lower()
b = random.choice(string.ascii_letters).lower()
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z = random.choice(string.ascii_letters).lower()

alphabet = 
{'a':a,'b':b,'c':c,'d':d,'e':e,'f':f,'g':g,'h':h,
'i':i,'j':j,'k':k,'l':l,'m':m,'n':n,
'o':o,'p':p,'q':q,'r':r,'s':s,'t':t,
'u':u,'v':v,'w':w,'x':x,'y':y,'z':z}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 751

Answers (1)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1124080

Don't use separate choice() calls. Use random.sample(), picking from string.ascii_lowercase rather than lowercasing:

# pick 10 random keys, all unique
keys = random.sample(string.ascii_lowercase, 10)

If all you are doing is shuffling all 26 letters, then use random.shuffle():

# list of 26 letters in random order
random_letters = list(string.ascii_lowercase)
random.shuffle(random_letters)
# map the alphabet to the random letters
alphabet = dict(zip(string.ascii_lowercase, random_letters))

Upvotes: 5

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