how would I go about initiating a 'randomDirection' variable to hold a random value from the directions array, and set the lastDirection variable to an empty array in python?

Here is the code in JavaScript, how can I convert it into Python?

let lastDirection = [], randomDirection;

CodePudding user response：

Assuming you have a directions array then we use the random module to help us choose a random direction in directions. Also, an empty list can be set by initializing a variable to [].

import random

directions = ['N', 'S', 'W', 'E']
random_direction = random.choice(directions)
last_direction = []

CodePudding user response：

(Note that [] in Python creates a list, and not an array.)

Your question's title seems to be asking a different question than your question's body, so I'll answer both.
To append an element elem to a list l in Python, you could do any of the following (I recommend looking into all three for the educational value):

l  = [a]
l.append(a)
l.extend([a])

There are differences between those but each of those would result in l having a added as its last element.

To choose a random element from a list called directions and put it in lastDirection, you could use random.choice (remember to import random for this):

lastDirection = random.choice(directions)  

If you want lastDirection to be an array and to just append directions to it as you go, then you could initialize it like so:

lastDirection = []

And then append elements to it using one of the methods noted above.

CodePudding user response：

Just remove the "let".

CodePudding user response：

In python you dont need to put let,var or const.And you dont need to put ';' at the end of every line of code you write.

lastDirection = ([]), randomDirection