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Python Python Basics (2015) Letter Game App Random Item

Posted by annikaheflin
annikaheflin
577 Points

I am not understand the directions

Please help me better under stand the directions

item.py 
import random

def random_item("Treehouse"):
     random.randict(0 < 4) == secret_number
        return secret_number - 1


# random_item("Treehouse")
# The randomly selected number is 4.
# The return value would be "h"

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,995 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,995 Points

The example in comments only shows you how the function might be called, it's not how it would be defined. In particular, the parameters in a definition are never enclosed in quotes.

Then, the purpose of the function is not to return a random number. The random number will be used as an index to select an item in the argument, and that is what will be returned. So if you pass a word as the argument, what the function would return could be any single letter taken out of the word.