Two newbie questions

[Moshe Zadka]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Manus Hand wrote:

> Following my own post.  How gauche.
> 
> Anyway, a slightly more legible alternative to get a random number
> between -sys.maxint and sys.maxint:
> 
> import random
> yourNumber = random.randrange(sys.maxint) * random.choice([1, -1])

Note that this is wrong: the chance to get 0 is twice the chance to get 1.

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