TypeError: ‘range’ object does not support item assignment

I was looking at some python 2.x code and attempted to translate it to py 3.x but I’m stuck on this section. Could anyone clarify what is wrong?

import random emails = { "x": "[REDACTED]@hotmail.com", "x2": "[REDACTED]@hotmail.com", "x3": "[REDACTED]@hotmail.com" } people = emails.keys() #generate a number for everyone allocations = range(len(people)) random.shuffle(allocations)

This was the error given TypeError: ‘range’ object does not support item assignment

accepted

In Python 3, range returns a lazy sequence object – it does not return a list. There is no way to rearrange elements in a range object, so it cannot be shuffled.

Convert it to a list before shuffling.

allocations = list(range(len(people)))