Random row

[Dariusz Mysior]

Why I get only last row from my csv file, why I don't get in any time ranom row :/

import csv, random

def new_name():
    with open('PL_surnames.csv', newline='') as csvfile:
        namesreader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=' ', quotechar='|')
        for row in namesreader:
        #print (','.join(row))
            random_choice=random.choice(row)
    return random_choice
print(new_name())

[Cal Leeming]

Somewhat off-topic for django-users, this would have been better placed on StackOverflow.

If I understood your question correctly, I think you need to remove the "for row in namesreader" and replace with;

namesreader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=' ', quotechar='|')

return random.choice(row)

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[Cal Leeming]

Doh sorry, hit return too quickly.

return random.choice(namesreader)

[m1chael]

you keep overwriting your random_choice every time the loop is run,
getting the last result is expected

[Dariusz Mysior]

I change it on

import csv, random

def new_name():
    with open('PL_surnames.csv', newline='') as csvfile:
        namesreader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=' ', quotechar='|')
       

        random_choice=random.choice(namesreader)
    return random_choice
print(new_name())

No I have this message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python31/csv", line 10, in <module>
    print(new_name())
  File "C:/Python31/csv", line 8, in new_name
    random_choice=random.choice(namesreader*len(namesreader))
TypeError: object of type '_csv.reader' has no len()
>>>

[Collin Anderson]

Hi,

Are you sure you saved your code? There's a len() in your traceback that isn't in your code.

Collin