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Peter Buechler
1,737 PointsBaffling error message when testing nchoices().
The code challenge is pretty straight forward. In my test in python on my own machine, a simple function works.
I begin with the obvious:
def nchoices(anIterable, n):
# rest of code goes here
However, the evaluator prints "Bummer, can't find nchoices()"
Not sure what's happening ++++++++++++
After writing the function correctly in a local Python environment, I neglected to import random, when running it in treehouse.
If I had done this in a local environment, Python would have complained with
NameError: name 'random' is not defined
Which makes sense, whereas the Treehouse error message did not 8-(
2 Answers
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Peter,
Did you import the random module?
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherThere's nothing in your nchoices function, so it's causing the interpreter to break and not actually register your function.