random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

[John Yeung]

On Jun 9, 8:39 pm, Paul McGuire <pt... at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Are you trying to generate a number in the
> range [0,n] by multiplying a random function that
> returns [0,1] * n?  If so, then you want to do
> this using: int(random.random()*(n+1))  This will
> give equal chance of getting any number from 0 to n.

Better still is simply

  random.randint(0, n)

For other discrete random choices, you may find randrange() or choice
() useful.

John