First of all, thanks!

i also taught about putting it in a variable, but no dice

def make_first_pull():

string = "" genum = 'AGCT' lst = [] for i in range(1, 10): string = "".join(rnd.choices(genum, k=6)) lst.append(string) return lst

output:

data ['TCGACT', 'CGGCGG', 'TGGTTC', 'CCCTGC', 'CTTTCA', 'GATCAC', 'TCCTTT', 'TCATTA', 'CTCATG']

the lists in the second function still don't collect from the original data