[Tutor] Beginner - Clarifying 'understanding randint arguments'

[Alan Gauld]

On 17/02/14 11:39, Marc Eymard wrote:
> Hi Tutor,
>
> The previous elements I sent to the mailing list were incomplete and
> needs no answer from Tutor.

But you got several nonetheless.
Did you read them?

If so you will know that calling randint() does not change the two 
xxx_range variables. It simply returns a random number as requested.
You will need to modify the range values yourself.

> Hope this clarifies my previous email (see further down this note).

>      >>> import random
>      >>> low_range = -1
>      >>> high_range = 101
>      >>> random.randint(low_range + 1, high_range - 1)
>     56
>      >>> low_range
>     -1
>      >>> high_range
>     101*

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