Birthday Paradox List is nonetype

Question

I'm trying to solve the Birthday Paradox with Python. I'm close but the last piece has me at a loss. I'm using random to generate a list of numbers given a range and number of items to create. That works.

I then check to see if a list (generated above) has duplicates. That works.

I then try to generate a given (n) of lists. Here is where I run into trouble. It generates one list then returns "NoneType" is not iterable. What puzzles me is, the list is generated but Python is not seeing it as a list.

Here's the code:

def make_bd(n, r):
    """Generates (r) numbers of birthdays in a range (n)."""
    import random
    t = [random.randrange(n) for i in range(r)]
    print (t)


def has_dupe(test):
    """Here I test to see if I can detect a duplicate birthday.
This is based on problem #4."""

    d = []
    count = 0
    for number in test:
        if number in d:
            count = count + 1
        d.append(number)
    if count >= 1:
        return True
    return False

def dupebd(n,r,t):
    count_dupe = 0
    for i in range(n):
        if has_dupe(make_bd(r,t)):
            count_dupe = count_dupe + 1
    print (float(count)/n)       

dupebd(50,365,23)

Here's the result:

>>> has_dupe(make_bd(50,6))
[13, 3, 8, 29, 34, 44]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#45>", line 1, in <module>
    has_dupe(make_bd(50,6))
  File "<pyshell#44>", line 7, in has_dupe
    for number in test:
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

Answer 1

In line 5 you print t but do not return it, so that make_bd returns None. Change the line to

return t