[Tutor] Need help understanding output...

[Laurens Vets]

Hello list,

I'm learning Python and I'm currently facing an issue with a small 
script I'm writing.

I need to generate a list of 30 numbers randomly chosen from 1, 2, 3, 4, 
5 & 6. However, I cannot have more than 2 numbers which are the same 
next to each other. I came up with the following (Please ignore the fact 
that I'm trying to avoid an IndexError in a stupid way :)):

import random
reeks = []
while len(reeks) <= 1:
   number = random.randrange(1, 7, 1)
   reeks.append(number)

while len(reeks) <= 29:
   nummer = random.randrange(1, 7, 1)
   if nummer != reeks[-1] and nummer != reeks[-2]:
     reeks.append(nummer)
print reeks

So far so good (I think). From what I can see from the output, I get 30 
numbers, without more than 2 being the same next to each other.

However, I wanted to look deeper in the above script and I created the 
following:

import random
iteraties = 5
cijferreeks = 6
aantal_cijfers = iteraties * cijferreeks
reeks = []
while len(reeks) <= 1:
   nummer = random.randrange(1, cijferreeks + 1, 1)
   print 'Nummer: ', nummer
   print 'Reeks: ', reeks
   reeks.append(nummer)
   print '\n'

while len(reeks) <= aantal_cijfers:
   nummer = random.randrange(1, cijferreeks + 1, 1)
   print 'Nummer: ',  nummer
   print 'Voorlaatste vd reeks (-2): ', reeks[-2]
   print 'Laatste vd reeks (-1): ', reeks[-1]
   print 'Reeks: ', reeks
   if nummer != reeks[-1] and nummer != reeks[-2]:
     reeks.append(nummer)
   else:
     print 'Nummer: ', nummer, 'is gelijk aan vorige 2 nummers: ', 
reeks[-1], '&', reeks[-2], '!'
   print '\n'
print reeks

When I run that, I can see there's something wrong with my if statement, 
it triggers the else condition even when the 2 previous numbers in my 
list are not the same...  I'm not sure what is happening here...