Random selection

[boring_accountant]

Ah ! Here is the error:

for pirates in pirates: # <-- This line is the bad guy
    print pirates
    # Attacks List
    attack = ['Dodge', 'Parry', 'Thrust']
    print'''

What this does is it cycles through values in the list named pirates and puts the result in a string called pirates. This effectively replaces the initial list with a string. When you call random.choice(), it is correctly applied on a string, which will return a random letter from the last word in the initial pirates list.

Here is a short example that should demonstrate what I mean:

test = ['abc', 'def']
for test in test:
    print(test)
print(test)
print(random.choice(test))

Output:
abc
def
def
e

If rename my initial variable from test to tests, here is the resulting code and output:

tests = ['abc', 'def']
for test in tests:
    print(test)
print(tests)
print(random.choice(tests))

Output:
abc
def
['abc', 'def']
def

Hope this helps.