[Solved] Keeping random name in Python

Question

The MakeSentence(): finishes once it hits the return statement, so you have several print statements that execute after that seemingly repeated again?

You could have this return a list or tuple:

def MakeSentence(): #makes sentence by combining name, verb, and noun
    """
    (None)->List
    Returns a list with a random name, verb and noun
    """
    x = [random_name(), random_verb(), random_noun()]
    return x

You can make many of these, but for example, try this:

sample = MakeSentence()

And to print it in the format above:

print(sample[0] + " is " + sample[1] + " " + sample[2])

Hope this solves it for you!

How can I store the first random name, verb, and noun to be used in
further statements?

After running, you can see what is happening in the interpreter: that the function returns a list with three strings inside, and you can use the bracket notation [0], [1] and [2] to access each of these as shown below. These three things are available for you until or unless you over-write them.

>>> sample = MakeSentence()
>>> print(sample)
['Sean', 'eating', 'apples']
>>> print(sample[0] + " is " + sample[1] + " " + sample[2])
Sean is eating apples

If I wanted to get many samples, I could do this:

many_samples = []  # make a list to store many lists
for users in range(3):  # to generate three samples: change to larger number if desired
    many_samples.append(MakeSentence())

An example of the nested list might be something like this (but this is rearranged to make it easier to read):

>>> print(many_samples)
[ 
  ['Sean', 'eating', 'apples'],
  ['Jane', 'drinking', 'oranges'],
  ['Jim', 'chopping', 'chairs']
]

# to print out these in a format as you had in the example:
for each_elem in many_samples:
    print(each_elem[0] + " is " + each_elem[1] + " " + each_elem[2])

so we are iterating through the list, and each element in the list is another list.
In each sub-list, we take the first (a position 0), second and third (at position 2) elements and have them plugged into our string output.

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