TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'list' and 'int'

Question

I am trying to run a simple piece of code in Python to try and put a text file into a list and get this error message:

TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'list' and 'int'

This is the code:

def MAINLOOP ():
    import random
    listofkeywords = []
    attempts = 0
    complete = ([0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0])
    while complete < 30:
        question = random.randint(0,14)
        print(question)

MAINLOOP()
def IMPORTKEYWORDS():
    thekeywords = open("keywords.txt","r")
    listofkeywords == thekeywords

Answer 1

Error at line while complete < 30 . The complete is a list and you try to compare it with a integer number 30 ? If you want to compare the list length, use while len(complete) < 30 .

Answer 2

You are comparing whole list at once. Such comparisons are not supported unless you use numpy. Fix for your code is to compare each entry in list individually as follows:

def MAINLOOP ():
    import random
    listofkeywords = []
    attempts = 0
    complete = ([0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0])
    for i in complete:
        if i <30:
            question = random.randint(0,14)
            print(question)

MAINLOOP()
def IMPORTKEYWORDS():
    thekeywords = open("keywords.txt","r")
    listofkeywords == thekeywords

Answer 3

One way to solve the error is to access a specific item in the list.

def MAINLOOP ():
    import random
    listofkeywords = []
    attempts = 0
    complete = ([0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0])

    while complete[0] < 30:
or 
    while len(complete[0]) < 30:

        question = random.randint(0,14)
        print(question)

MAINLOOP()
def IMPORTKEYWORDS():
    thekeywords = open("keywords.txt","r")
    listofkeywords == thekeywords

Answer 4

because complete is a tuple and there is a list inside it then first you should get first element which is the list

you can use index like below

complete[0]