Assigning randomly generated integers to string output in Python

I am working on a random fact generator that takes a randomly generated number (in this case 1 -10) and assigns that number to a string output that tells the user a random fact.

So far this is all I have been able to piece together code wise:

#Greeting
a = "Hello, who am I speaking to?"
print("Welcome, " + input(a) + "!" + " Lets see what fact you rolled...")

#Random Number Generator
import random
for x in range (1):
randomNumber = random.randint(1, 10)
print(randomNumber)

#Loop function
def check_val(randomNumber, title, answer):
while True:
if input(randomNumber) == title:
print(answer)
break
else:
print("I dont know.")

#Facts
def fact():

randomNumber, answer = ,
randomNumber[1] = ([1])
answer[1] = "Fact1"
randomNumber[2] = ([2])
answer[2] = "Fact2"
randomNumber[3] = ([3])
answer[3] = "Fact3"
randomNumber[4] = ([4])
answer[4] = "Fact4"
randomNumber[5] = ([5])
answer[5] = "Fact5"
for k in randomNumber:
check_val(randomNumber[k], k, answer[k])


fact()


When running this code, I get the following output:

Hello, who am I speaking to?j
Welcome, j! Lets see what fact you rolled...
5
[1]

I am not able to take that random integer (5) and assign it to random fact #5.

Any ideas on how to assign these random integers to usable output?

2 Answers
2

Hey bud you got a lot going on in here, you can simple this down using a list to store your facts, heres a better format that you can build off of.
As mentioned by @JonClements we can use random.randrange(len(facts)) this will make our code more adaptable if we want to alter the amount of facts in our list.

list

random.randrange(len(facts))

import random

while True:
name = input("nHello, Who am I speaking to?n")
print(f"nWelcome, name! Lets see what you rolled..."

facts = [
'Fact one',
'Fact two',
'Fact three',
'Fact four',
'Fact five',
'Fact six',
'Fact seven',
'Fact eight',
'Fact nine',
'Fact ten'
]

selection = random.randrange(len(facts))

print(facts[selection])


int

randint

IndexError

selection = random.randrange(len(facts))

#Greeting
a = "Hello, who am I speaking to?"
print("Welcome, " + input(a) + "!" + " Lets see what fact you rolled...")

#Random Number Generator
import random
for x in range (1):
randomNumber = random.randint(1, 10)
print(randomNumber) <--- your printing 5

#Loop function
def check_val(randomNumber, title, answer):
while True:
if input(randomNumber) == title: <--- answer argument which were passed was [1] remember so it asks you to write something with the text [1]
print(answer)
break
else:
print("I dont know.")

#Facts
def fact():

randomNumber, answer = , <--- your 5 nol longer exist because you now overwrote it with a dict
randomNumber[1] = ([1])
answer[1] = "Fact1"
randomNumber[2] = ([2])
answer[2] = "Fact2"
randomNumber[3] = ([3])
answer[3] = "Fact3"
randomNumber[4] = ([4])
answer[4] = "Fact4"
randomNumber[5] = ([5])
answer[5] = "Fact5"
for k in randomNumber: <--- # now it's iterating over the dict, and since you wrote 1 first that is most likely to be the one it finds first in the memory though there no order here
check_val(randomNumber[k], k, answer[k])


fact()


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