Basically, I'm trying to create a program that will replace the values of diceList with a random integer between 1 and 6 wherever my indexList has a 1 in it. This is what I have so far:

import random
def replaceValues(diceList, indexList):newList = diceListfor i in indexList:if indexList == 1:newList[i] = random.randint(1,6)return newList

I'm executing replaceValues([1,2,3,4,5], [0,1,0,1,0]) and what I should get is [1,x,3,x,5] where x should be a random number between 1 and 6. The problem is it currently returns [1,2,3,4,5]

Is indexList a list? If so, what does a list == 1 mean?

if indexList == 1:newList[i] = random.randint(1,6)

Did you perhaps mean i == 1 ?

Edit:

I think you're looking for something like this:

def replaceValues(diceList, indexList):newList = diceListif len(diceList) == len(indexList):for pos in range(0, len(indexList)):if indexList[pos] == 1:newList[pos] = random.randint(0,6)return newList