[Tutor] Print record x in a file

[Kent Johnson]

Max Noel wrote:
> 
> On Jan 23, 2005, at 22:08, Liam Clarke wrote:
> 
>> Don't you mean
>>
>> x=random.randint(0, lenoflist) ?? I'm assuming you want an integer.
> 
> 
>     random.randrange() returns an item (which can be a float or 
> whatever, but by default is an int) in the specified range. In that 
> case, an int between 0 and lenoflist.
>     The advantage over random.randint is that you can specify a step. Thus,
> random.randrange(0, 257, 2) will return an even number between 0 and 256 
> inclusive.

Also the output of randint() is inclusive of both endpoints - with the above statement you will have
0 <= x <= lenoflist. So in that case you would want lenoflist = len(listcontents) - 1

Kent