[Tutor] random number equations . . .

[Gregor Lingl]

Dragonfirebane at aol.com schrieb:

> I don't want to write my own equations for creating random numbers 
> (based on 'time.time()'), but i need random numbers to create account 
> id's and assign starting money in the program segment below . . . i 
> would use [import random *] but i'm not sure which section of random 
> is a random number generator or the syntax necessary to apply it.  Any 
> help would be appreciated.
>
There are two or three functions in module random, which you could use, if
you didn't want to build your own:

 >>> from random import randrange   # works similar to range
 >>> for i in range(20): print randrange(4),

1 1 0 3 2 1 3 2 0 0 1 1 3 3 0 1 1 0 0 2
 >>> for i in range(20): print randrange(5,9),

5 7 8 5 8 7 8 7 7 6 6 8 5 7 7 5 8 8 5 6


 >>> from random import randint
 >>> for i in range(20): print randint(0,4),   # needs start and 
endpoint(inclusive) of interval

3 0 3 3 2 2 4 4 1 1 3 0 4 1 4 3 2 1 3 2
 >>> for i in range(20): print randint(1,6), # dice

3 5 3 3 2 2 5 5 2 1 1 1 6 2 6 5 3 6 4 4
 >>> from random import choice  # from any sequence type, e.g. strings
 >>> for i in range(20): print choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"),

p h f b a o p l n q z y k f n c k r v l
 >>> for i in range(20): print choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".upper()),

V Y R I T Q K O E A S V E T F V Q M M Q
 >>>

You may find docs here:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-random.html

Regards,
Gregor