Size of integers (2**32-1)

[Peter Hansen]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> Thomas Guettler <st-newsgroups at thomas-guettler.de> writes:
> > The module random contains a lot of functions. I think getting a
> > random 32 random number is needed often.
> >
> > randrange(0,2147483647) is not a 32 Bit random number because
> >   2**32-1 is 4294967295.
> 
> Woops, sorry, I misread 2**32-1 as 2**31-1 which is the largest
> 32-bit positive integer.  2**32-1 is an overflow if you use 32 bit
> ints.  I guess you could try random(-2147483648, 2147483647)
> if you want all 32 bits random.  Alternatively you could try
>   (random(0,65536) << 16 | random(0,65536))

Unfortunately, random.randrange(-2147483648, 2147483647) would
exclude 2147483647.  randrange(1) produces only zero....