🔒 Need help retrieving questions inside of a dictionary at random

[white shore]

Hello, I am making a practice quiz maker/taker. Right now I want to have my program prompt the user to input what Subject and chapter they want to study. Then the program will display the question first and wait for an input then display the answer afterwards. My values is a list of tuples but I want to retrieve the questions from that tuple. Basically the first item of the list that is inside the tuple.

For context print(pracQA_Data[userInputSubject].values()) would print something like this.

dict_values([[['question1', 'answer1'], ['question2', 'answer2']], [['question3', 'answer3']]])

I want my program to randomly pick the questions from this list of tuples on by one.
In doing some research I found that random.choice works with dictionaries but I don't know how to progress or use it in this case.

[silent viper]

@white shore

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[white shore]

This is what I have if you need further context

def quizTaker():
    with open("practiceQuiz.json", "r") as json_QAfile:
        pracQA_Data = json.load(json_QAfile)
        print("What subject would you like to study?")
        print(", ".join(pracQA_Data.keys()))
        userInputSubject = input()
        if userInputSubject in pracQA_Data.keys():
            print(",".join(pracQA_Data[userInputSubject].keys()))
            print("What chapter would you like to study (or type random)")
            userInputChapter = input()
            if userInputChapter == "random":
             
            ```

[pastel steeple]

Can you just shuffle the QA pairs and then iterate through that list?

[white shore]

Is there a method to shuffle them or do I have to manually do it myself? I wanted to make it dynamic. So should I have a variable that holds the dict values?

[pastel steeple]

random.shuffle

[pastel steeple]

I'd build a list of QA pairs once the topic has been selected

[white shore]

Well the list is already made and is loaded in a json file. I have to build another list?

[pastel steeple]

Yes because you want to then shuffle it in case the user has selected random right?

[white shore]

Yeah

I will try to do that now

So I would do
new_list = list(pracQA_Data[userInputSubject].values()) ?

[silent viper]

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