Random Number Generation?

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Dimos wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I need some help with random number generation. What I
> need exactly is:
>
> To create a few thousand numbers, decimal and
> integers, between 5 and 90,
> and then to export them as a single column at a
> spreadsheet.
>
> I am newbie, I was not able to create decimals with
> the random modules of
> Python 2.3.

You use randint(a,b) to generate an integer between a and b.

For real numbers, the function is random(). But that result is
always between 0.0 and 1.0, so you have to make the range
adjustment yourself.

>>> import random
>>> for i in range(10):
	print random.random()*85 + 5

20.2844473176
83.5690712033
77.3459998722
8.79906993754
53.3672450881
25.2609744882
19.8894951301
39.9794852838
43.4056977237
21.7770662903



>
> Thanks, Dimos
>
>
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