More list help please!

[Pytho13]

Hi everyone,

I have a question that I can't figure out, I've been trying to find the answer myself.

I have created two lists and looped through them to create the final list
fruits []

I now want to assign 5 random fruits to each 'fruit basket' that I have created

I thought this might work:

while len (fruits_1) <5

but it just keeps looping through the code over and over.

How can I give 5 different fruits to each fruit basket?

[michael1789]

I thought this might work:

while len (fruits_1) <5

but it just keeps looping through the code over and over.

Well, the obvious question is whether or not you increase the length of friuts_1 in each iteration. Even if the results are totally wrong, your loop should stop.

Try putting this in your loop:

print(len(fruits_1)

see what shows

[Pytho13]

I thought this might work:

while len (fruits_1) <5

but it just keeps looping through the code over and over.

Well, the obvious question is whether or not you increase the length of friuts_1 in each iteration. Even if the results are totally wrong, your loop should stop.

Try putting this in your loop:

print(len(fruits_1)

see what shows

Hi Michael,

Thanks so much for getting back to me.

I am trying to place out of 50 elements 5 in basket 1 and 5 in basket 2.

Is there a way to do that before printing?

So I now have
basket_1 = []
basket_2 = []
and I have fruits = []
fruits already contains all the fruits from two other lists so I'm wondering how to add only 5 of the 50 fruits to each basket.
I hope this makes sense.