How do i use User input in a list

Question

I have an assignment where I'm asked to to repeat a list but with different "items" (I guess you would call it that).

the only problem that I seem to have is figuring out how to change the list with user input and how to use something like a counter

I'm supposed to change: random_things=['food', 'room', 'drink', 'pet']

into: random_things=['apple', 'bedroom', 'apple juice', 'dog']

But I have to do this 7 times so I need to be able to keep the lists separate like random_things[1] , random things[2] , etc .

I'm in grade 11 so please try and keep it as simple as you possibly can as this is my first year coding

Answer 1

Not fully sure what the message to the user should be what you want is for range loop and to loop over he random_things words:

random_things=['food', 'room', 'drink', 'pet']
# store all the lists of input
output = []

# loop 7 times
for _ in range(7):
    # new list for each set of input
    temp = []
    # for each word in random_things
    for word in random_things:
       # ask user to input a related word/phrase
        temp.append(input("Choose something related to {}".format(word)) )
    output.append(temp)

Instead of the temp list you could use a list comprehension :

random_things = ['food', 'room', 'drink', 'pet']
output = []
for _ in range(7):
    output.append([input("Choose something related to {}".format(word)) for word in random_things])

Which could be combined into one single list comprehension:

output = [[input("Choose something related to {}".format(w)) for w in random_things]
          for _ in range(7)]

If you have to use a count variable, you can use while loops:

random_things=['food', 'room', 'drink', 'pet']
# store all the lists of input
output = []

# set count to 0
count = 0
# loop seven times
while count < 7:
    # new list for each set of input
    temp = []
    index = 0
    # loop until index is < the length of random_things
    while index < len(random_things):
       # ask user to input a related word/phrase
       # use index to access word in random_thongs
        temp.append(input("Choose something related to {}".format(random_things[index])) )
        index += 1
    output.append(temp)
    # increase count after each inner loop
    count += 1

lists indexes start at 0 so the first element is at index 0 not index 1.