import random module

Richard Brodie R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk
Wed Mar 22 12:03:41 EST 2006


"Benjamin Niemann" <pink at odahoda.de> wrote in message news:dvrvnf$gu3$1 at online.de...

> Don't name your script 'random.py' (or any other name from the stdlib).
> 'import random' will import the script itself (not the random module from
> the stdlib), which is not what you want.

I discovered long, long ago that giving your variables meaningful
names only leads to confusion. ;) 





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