python newbie

Chris chris at cmb-enterprises.com
Sun Apr 7 21:35:02 EDT 2002


In article <Xns91E989929996CRASXnewsDFE1 at 130.133.1.4>,
 Philip Swartzleonard <starx at pacbell.net> wrote:

> def percent_chance( percentage ):
>     	"Assumes percentage as number 0-100"
>     	if random.random() > (percentage / 100.0):
>     	    	return 1
>     	else:
>     	    	return 0

Might more concisely be written as:

def percent_chance( percentage ):
     return random.random() > (percentage / 100.0)



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