Byte wrote: > How would I do this: Write a program that simply outputs a ramdom (in > this case) name of (for this example) a Linux distibution. Heres the > code ive tryed: > > from random import uniform > from time import sleep > > x = 2 > while x < 5: > x = uniform(1, 5) > if x >= 1 <= 1.999: print 'SuSE' > elif x >= 2 <= 2.999: print 'Ubuntu' > elif x >= 3 <= 3.999: print 'Mandriva' > elif x >= 4 <= 4.999: print 'Fedora' > sleep(2) > > It dosnt work: only keep printing SuSE. Please help, > > Thanks in advance, > -- /usr/bin/byte >
import random dist = ['suse','ubuntu','mandriva','fedora'] random.choice(dist) is that ok? Tim Parkin [1] http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-random.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
