Two newbie questions
Moshe Zadka
moshez at math.huji.ac.il
Wed Jun 14 01:39:35 EDT 2000
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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Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il>
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