Hello Jon,<br><br>Why don't use randint so you can record the index and the value <br><br>Example:<br> WORDS = ("python", "program", "code", "xylophone")<br> Indword = random.randint
(0,len(WORDS)-1)<br> word = WORDS[Indword]<br> print Indword<br> print word<br><br>Cheers,<br>pujo<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Moore</b> <<a href="mailto:jonathan.r.moore@gmail.com">
jonathan.r.moore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello<br><br>I need some help for a program I am writing as a newbie to Python.
<br><br>I have created a series:<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">WORDS = ("python", "program", "code", "xylophone")
</span><br><br>and then assigned one of them randomly to the variable 'word':<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">word = random.choice(WORDS)</span><br><br>I know that if I do:<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">
print word</span><br><br>The randomly chosen word will be displayed. I also know that if I type:<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">print WORDS[x]</span><br><br>I will get the corresponding word back. But how do I find 'programaticaly' the index number for the string that
random.choice has chosen?<br><br>The reason I ask is that I an writing a simple word jumble game and need to link the randomly chosen word to a hint should the user need one.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Best Regards<br><span class="sg">
<br>
Jon Moore
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