On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, zywy wrote: > Does anyone know whether there is a python function to generate > exponentially distributed random numbers? Hi Zywy, Yup: you'll probably want to use the 'random' module's "expovariate()" function: here's a link to its documentation: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-random.html If you have more questions, please feel free to ask. Good luck!