How do I assign numbers to sentences?

Question

I am trying to do this

proverbs = "a bad excuse is better than none","A bad workman blames his tools," etc.

number_of_proverb = random.randint (1,38)

proverb = sentence number number_of_proverb

But I have no idea how to assign numbers to sentences. Thank you, beforehand, for all of your help.

PS 38 because there are 38 sentences. Also is this

proverbs = "something something","something something","something, something"

correct? Sorry for these basic questions but I just started.

Answer 1

I see what you are trying to do. You are making a list of proverbs and you want to randomly select one from a list. So it would be best to store your proverbs in a list and use random.choice to select them from that list.

proverbs = ["this proverb","that proverb","something, something", "another"]

random.choice(proverbs)

• How to randomly select an item from a list?

If you want to have a number associated with the proverbs, you can just use the index function to get the position of the proverb in the list. Like this:

proverbs.index("another")

Output:

3

• Finding the index of an item in a list

Answer 2

Thank you Robert and @andrbrue. I did this.

proverbs = ["A bad excuse is better than none.","A bad workman blames his tools."

(there are 38 proverbs)

rp = (proverbs[random.randint(1,38)])

I still have some problems but I'll figure them out. Thx so much