Question

This is an exercise on basic python grammar.

Instructions

Assume there are 10 teams in a competition. Their names are "team1", "team2" .. "team10".

Write a function to generate their order of performance randomly.

Submit your code in Jupyter notebook format (.ipynb) on Canvas

Hint

1. Use a list to save all the team names
2. Define a function called order()  
3. Use built-in module random to generate a random index within the list
4. Remove the item from the current list and add it to a new empty list
5. Repeat this until the old list is empty (length of the list becomes 0)

Note: You may certainly use another data structure or another algorithm without following the above suggested steps.

Answer 1

Solution:

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Screenshot of the code and output in Jupyter Notebook:

Code to copy:

import random
def order(teams):
    new_list = []
    #find the length of the list 
    l = len(teams)
    #loop untill the length becomes zero
    while l!=0:
        #generate a random index in the range 0 to l-1
        index = random.randint(0,l-1)
        #add the element at index to the new list
        new_list.append(teams[index])
        #remove the element at index from old list
        teams.pop(index)
        #decrement the length
        l-=1
    #return the new list
    return new_list

teams = ['team1','team2','team3','team4','team5','team6','team7','team8','team9','team10']
print(order(teams))

I hope this would help...................:-))