How do I write a code for a group random dating?

Question

How do I write a code for a group random dating, and each time, there is no one duplicate in the list. Let say we have 10 people in a group, and we do 1 on 1 meeting. right now, every time I do a random pick in the list, some names duplicates.

let say I break the group into two list x and y there is something wrong with it still. Error Message: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/treehouse/workspace/reviewfile.py", line 11, in <module>
d = random.choice(y)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/random.py", line 346, in choice
return seq[self._randbelow(len(seq))]
IndexError: list index out of range

import random

x = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'] y = ['z', 'n', 'm', 'l', 'p']

while len(x)>0: z = random.choice(x) d = random.choice(y) print(z, d) x.remove(z) y.remove(d)

Answer 1 · 2020-11-23T22:27:23Z

November 23, 2020 10:27pm

Hmm strange, I ran your code as you wrote it, and it did not throw the error.

This was the code I ran:

import random

x = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
y = ['z', 'n', 'm', 'l', 'p']

while len(x)>0:
    z = random.choice(x)
    d = random.choice(y)
    print(z, d)
    x.remove(z)
    y.remove(d)

And this was the output:

c l
e m
d z
b p
a n

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