Small newbie question

[Astan Chee]

Byte wrote:

>How would I do this: Write a program that simply outputs a ramdom (in
>this case) name of (for this example) a Linux distibution. Heres the
>code ive tryed:
>
>from random import uniform
>from time import sleep
>
>x = 2
>while x < 5:
>    x = uniform(1, 5)
>    if x >= 1 <= 1.999: print 'SuSE'
>    elif x >= 2 <= 2.999: print 'Ubuntu'
>    elif x >= 3 <= 3.999: print 'Mandriva'
>    elif x >= 4 <= 4.999: print 'Fedora'
>    sleep(2)
>  
>
But replace your if statement with this (which is similar), does work:
    if 1 <= x <= 1.999: print 'SuSE'
    elif 2 <= x <= 2.999: print 'Ubuntu'
    elif 3 <= x <= 3.999: print 'Mandriva'
    elif 4 <= x <= 4.999: print 'Fedora'

>It dosnt work: only keep printing SuSE. Please help,
>
>Thanks in advance,
> -- /usr/bin/byte
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