On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:27:32 -0700, castironpi wrote: > On Jul 11, 1:29 pm, WDC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jul 11, 2:15 pm, Michiel Overtoom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > You wrote... >> > >Is there a better way to do that besides doing this: >> >> > >>>>random.randint(00000000000000000, 99999999999999999) >> > >09657398671238769 >> >> > Maybe this? >> >> > random.randint(0, 9e16) >> >> > -- >> > "The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective >> > IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply >> > amazing." - Vinod >> > Vallopillilhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween4.html >> >> That would work yes, but is there a random() function that would do >> that without the attributes? Not trying to be lazy, I just want to know >> if there is a built in way. >> >> Thanks Michiel. > > You want a random integer. Is there a range you want it in? > > Past a certain point, you'll exceed the granularity of the random number > generator, and some values in the range will never be generated.
In which case you might grab random numbers, and'ing them with 0xffff or 0xffffffff or something at a time, and then smoosh them together with shifts and or's, or multiplication and addition, to get the precision you need. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
