Dimos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I need some help with random number generation. What I > need exactly is: > > To create a few thousand numbers, decimal and > integers, between 5 and 90, > and then to export them as a single column at a > spreadsheet. > > I am newbie, I was not able to create decimals with > the random modules of Python 2.3.
The random module lets you create floats and integers, not instances of class decimal.Decimal (surely not in 2.3, which didn't even HAVE a module decimal in its standard library!). If you want floats, the way to create a float with uniform distribution between 5 and 90 is to call random.uniform(5, 90). If you want 3000: r3k = [random.uniform(5, 90) for i in xrange(3000)] None of the 3k numbers will be integers, and it's unlikely that any of the 3k floats happens to have a fractional part that's exactly 0. If you do want integers as well as floats, you'll have to decide with what probability an integer must appear instead of a float, and do a second pass on r3k to enforce this. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
