Two newbie questions

[richard_chamberlain]

doh,

>>random.randint(0,i-1)

where i is maxint

Richard

richard_chamberlain <richard_chamberlain at ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> or,
>
> import string
> st=string.join(l,'')
>
> will do it.
>
> if you do your random thing interactively and don't assign to i you'll
> notice you get an exception so you'll have to play around based on that.
>
> I'm sure I'll be corrected but I guess the range your trying to use
> (-maxint-1 to maxint) is not an int it's a long so it doesn't work.
>
> random.randint(0,i-1)
>
> does work though.
>
>
> Richard
>
> Arkaitz <ma9aba at bath.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:20000613165659.A7828 at basajaun...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm learning Python, as it seems everybody around here :-), and I found
> two
> > problems that I can't find the solution to:
> > 1. As the strings are inmutable, if I want to modify the order of the
> characters
> > in the string(e.g. sort them), what I do is:
> >
> > st = "asdfasfasdf"
> > l = []
> > for c in st:
> >     l.append(c)
> >
> > Then I process the list, and the problem is that I have no idea of how I
> can get
> > the string back, any help?
> > 2. The second question is about random numbers, how can I get a random
int
> between the minimum and maximum integers of the machine?
> > The next code doesn't worK
> > import sys, random
> >
> > i = random.randint(-sys.maxint-1, sys.maxint)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Arkaitz.
> >
>
>