> I need to retrieve an integer from within a range ... this
> works ... below is my out puts ... it just does not seem so
> random ...
>
> Is there perhaps a suggestion out there to create a more
> random int ...?
I'm not sure how you determine that "it just does not seem so
random"...I tried the following:
>>> import random
>>> samples = 10000
>>> x = [random.randint(3,8) for i in range(1,samples+1)]
>>> s = 0
>>> for i,j,k in [(i,x.count(i), (samples/6.0)-x.count(i)) for i
in range(3,9)]:
... print i,j,k
... s = s + k
...
3 1735 -68.3333333333
4 1634 32.6666666667
5 1608 58.6666666667
6 1688 -21.3333333333
7 1670 -3.33333333333
8 1665 1.66666666667
>>> s
-5.6843418860808015e-14
It also seems to hover fairly closely about the mid-point in
terms of distribution. Looks like a fairly decent sampling to
me. Is there some statistical test it's failing for you?
-tim
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