[Tutor] random numbers

Jennifer Cianciolo jciancio@indiana.edu
Wed May 28 12:41:47 2003


Hi,

I'm having trouble generating random numbers.

if I do

import random
random.random()

I get

TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

and what I would really like to do is get random integers, but I can't
do that either.

if I put in

randrange(1, 10)

I get

NameError: name 'randrange' is not defined

but I found that in FAQ
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?querytype=anykeywords&casefold=y
es&req=search&query=random

one more thing - what does it mean that random numbers generated by
python are 'psuedo' random?  any way to make them not psuedorandom?

thanks in advance
Jen