Generating random words

Question

I'm trying to create a string that has a set amount of different words I include in a list, however the code I use only uses one word at random, not a different word for every word printed.

This is my code:

import random

words = ['hello', 'apple', 'something', 'yeah', 'nope', 'lalala']
print random.choice(words) * 5

An example output would be:

hellohellohellohellohello

An example expected output would be:

appleyeahhellonopesomething

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

random.choice(words) * 5 executes random.choice only once and then multiplies the result by five, causing the same string to be repeated.

>>> import random
>>> words = ['hello', 'apple', 'something', 'yeah', 'nope', 'lalala']
>>> print ''.join(random.choice(words) for _ in range(5))
applesomethinghellohellolalala

Answer 2

If you don't want the words from your original list to be repeated, then you could use sample.

import random as rn
words = ['hello', 'apple', 'something', 'yeah', 'nope', 'lalala']

word = ''.join(rn.sample(words, 5))

Result:

>>> word
'yeahhellosomethingapplenope'