Re: Small newbie question

2006-02-12 Thread Astan Chee
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: p

Re: Small newbie question

2006-02-12 Thread Paul Rubin
> while x < 5: > x = uniform(1, 5) > if x >= 1 <= 1.999: print 'SuSE' > ... > It dosnt work: only keep printing SuSE. Please help, Try this: x = 27.6 if x >= 1 <= 1.999: print 'SuSE' It prints 'SuSE' because the test is written incorrectly. You want: if 1 <= x <= 1.999: p

Re: Small newbie question

2006-02-12 Thread Byte
Great stuff, thanks: -- /usr/bin/byte -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Small newbie question

2006-02-12 Thread Tim Parkin
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 <=