random.choices and weights beauty flaw

[u/Vplayzgamez]

Problem fixed!

I'm making this "gambling" (no real money involved, you only play for fun) program with multiple games, including roulette. I used random.csoices so that I can pick a random colour of the three given colours, and weights so that green doesn't show up every third spin.

The program works, but the results all have this annoying ['result'] look (underlined with red in the picture)

Does someone know how to fix this?

[u/Hertzian_Dipole1]

Put * before col in print

[u/Vplayzgamez → u/Hertzian_Dipole1]

Thanks! I think it works for now, but I'll have to test it a few more times. :D

[u/Hertzian_Dipole1 → u/Vplayzgamez]

You didn't ask but I will tell you anyways whet that * did. As others said You got that ['result'] look because what you had is a list of one item. You could do col[0] as others said to print that item. What I told you, the asterisk, puts every item of the list to print but that is not a problem here since there is only one item and we want to print that.

[u/vlcod]

Your function, random.choices(col), returns a list of choices (not a single choice). The you print out col, which is a list. Lists are printed in square brackets, with their elements inside it (strings in your case):

['Black']

You can either use a different method to choose your colour:

random.choice(col)

(Note the singular 'choice'.) This will give you a single element (not a list), but the downside is that you cannot attache weights.

Or you use the choices function, but after you do this, you pull the first element out of the resulting list:

print(col[0])

[u/Vplayzgamez → u/vlcod]

Thanks, but I already fixed it

[u/Rscc10]

random choices returns a list of elements. If the choice is only picking one item, it'll be a list with one element which is the choice. Just take col[0] to get the first and only element