Random number help
Thomas Nyberg
tomuxiong at gmx.com
Wed Nov 23 14:33:54 EST 2016
On 11/23/2016 02:17 PM, Thomas Grops via Python-list wrote:
> I need a way of generating a random number but there is a catch:
>
> I don't want to include certain numbers, is this possible?
>
> random.randint(1,100) works as it will randomly pick numbers between 1 and 100 but say i don't want 48 to come out is there a way of doing this. It needs to be an integer too so not a list unless there is a way to convert list to int
>
> Many Thanks Tom
>
If you specifically want to exclude 48, you could create the list of
acceptable numbers and make a random choice from it. For example:
>>> import random
>>> l = list(range(1, 48)) + list(range(49, 101))
>>> random.choice(l)
64
Cheers,
Thomas
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