calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y)

[Dave Angel]

Vincent Davis wrote:
> I currently have something like this.
>
> class applicant():
>     def __int__(self, x, y):
>         self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y)
> then other stuff
>
> x, y are only used to calculate self.randomnum   and this seems to
> work. But I want self.randomnum to be 0 <= randomnum <= 100. The only
> way I can thing of to do this is is with a while statement and that
> seems more complicated than necessary. I would really like to keep it
> on one line. How would I do that?
>
> Thanks
> Vincent Davis
>
>   
There are at least two interpretations to your requirement, both of 
which change the distribution.  So you have to specify what the real 
distribution is that you want.

  1) clamp - see Xavier's response.  This will give you more values at 
exactly 100 and/or exactly 0 than normalvariate would specify,
  2) discard - this will throw away any values outside the range, and 
try again.  And in this case, a loop is essential, plus some mechanism 
to handle the case where the loop would never terminate.  For example, 
suppose x is 10000.