Random integers
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Mon Oct 23 21:26:37 EDT 2006
Charles R Harris wrote:
>
> On 10/23/06, *Tim Hochberg* <tim.hochberg at ieee.org
> <mailto:tim.hochberg at ieee.org>> wrote:
>
> Albert Strasheim wrote:
> > Hello all
> >
> > I'm trying to generate random 32-bit integers. None of the
> following seem to
> > do the trick with NumPy 1.0.dev3383:
> >
> > In [32]: N.random.randint (-2**31, 2**31-1)
> > ValueError: low >= high
>
> There should be a raw output from mtrand somewhere that gives random
> uint32 output which you might be able to cast somehow. Really, there
> should also be a signed output somewhere but I haven't looked closely at
> the mtrand interface.
There is RandomState.tomaxint(), which returns signed integers >= 0 and <=
sys.maxint. It didn't get exposed at the module level, for some reason, though.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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