Help with if statement

[Ganesan R]

>>>>> "Jikosan" == Jikosan  <jikosan83 at yahoo.com> writes:

> I can't get my "if" statement to work indicated below.  What happens is no
> matter what the value random is, neg gets incremented by 1.


> for x in range(0,N):
>     random = uniform(-1, 1)
>     print random
>     if random < 1.0: <--- Not working
>         neg = neg+1

Since uniform will return numbers in the interval [-1, 1), all instances of
random will be less than 1.0.  May be you meant to say random < 0.0?

Ganesan

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