[Tutor] Indexing in a series for a newbie

[Wolfram Kraus]

Jon Moore wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I need some help for a program I am writing as a newbie to Python.
> 
> I have created a series:
> 
> WORDS = ("python", "program", "code", "xylophone")
> 
> and then assigned one of them randomly to the variable 'word':
> 
> word = random.choice(WORDS)
> 
> I know that if I do:
> 
> print word
> 
> The randomly chosen word will be displayed. I also know that if I type:
> 
> print WORDS[x]
> 
> I will get the corresponding word back. But how do I find 
> 'programaticaly' the index number for the string that random.choice has 
> chosen?
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards
> 
> Jon Moore
You can convert your WORDS-tuple to a list and use the index() method:

idx = list(WORDS).index(word)

HTH,
Wolfram