Random module missing?

[Brown, Rodrick]

I seen some documentation about random.random() but my version seems to be broken?

Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jul 16 2009, 07:03:37)
[GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-11)] on linux2
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>>> import random
>>> dir(random)
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__']
>>> random.random()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'rand

Please advise thanks.