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On Mar 24, 12:18 pm, George Sakkis <george.sak... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 24, 3:13 pm, pythonnubie <exxf... at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > i  have  come across my first exeption using randrange . The exeption
> > > > is " no such  attribute " in  module random
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> > > > platform  is xp  home  and the python  build is activestate 2.5
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> > > Welcome aboard!
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> > > There's definitely a randrange function in the random module, so
> > > something else must be wrong. To get the most out of this list and
> > > minimize wasted bandwidth, the most effective way usually consists of
> > > copying and pasting:
> > > 1. The offending code (or just the relevant part if it's too big).
> > > 2. The full traceback of the raised exception.
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> > > Regards,
> > > George
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> > Hwere is the complete traceback ! >>> The word is:  index
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> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "F:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework
> > \scriptutils.py", line 307, in RunScript
> >     debugger.run(codeObject, __main__.__dict__, start_stepping=0)
> >   File "F:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\debugger
> > \__init__.py", line 60, in run
> >     _GetCurrentDebugger().run(cmd, globals,locals, start_stepping)
> >   File "F:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\debugger
> > \debugger.py", line 631, in run
> >     exec cmd in globals, locals
> >   File "F:\Documents and Settings\Mark\My Documents\rand.py", line 5,
> > in <module>
> >     import random
> >   File "F:\Documents and Settings\Mark\My Documents\random.py", line
> > 13, in <module>
> >     distributions on the real line:
> > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'randrange'
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> > Why  would it say  it can't find the function ?
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> Because you named your file 'random.py' and it shadows the standard
> random module! Change the name to something else, say foo.py, and try
> it again.
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