Small newbie question

[Tim Parkin]

Byte wrote:
> How would I do this: Write a program that simply outputs a ramdom (in
> this case) name of (for this example) a Linux distibution. Heres the
> code ive tryed:
> 
> from random import uniform
> from time import sleep
> 
> x = 2
> while x < 5:
>     x = uniform(1, 5)
>     if x >= 1 <= 1.999: print 'SuSE'
>     elif x >= 2 <= 2.999: print 'Ubuntu'
>     elif x >= 3 <= 3.999: print 'Mandriva'
>     elif x >= 4 <= 4.999: print 'Fedora'
>     sleep(2)
> 
> It dosnt work: only keep printing SuSE. Please help,
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>  -- /usr/bin/byte
> 


import random
dist = ['suse','ubuntu','mandriva','fedora']
random.choice(dist)

is that ok?

Tim Parkin

[1] http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-random.html