On Jul 12, 10:06 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:27:32 -0700, castironpi wrote: > > 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. > > You might want to produce an unbounded random integer, where *every* > integer has a chance to be returned: > > def unbounded_randint(): > i = 0 > while True: > if random.random() < 0.5: > return i > i += 1 > > This returns 0 with probability 1/2, 1 with probability 1/4, 2 with > probability 1/8, etc. The probability distribution is centered close to > zero (the mode and median are both zero, and I'm too lazy to calculate > the mean) and it has an infinitely long tail. > > -- > Steven
Thanks Steven. I like how that bit works. No range in particular. I was just wondering if there was a better way than what I had been doing. Thanks for help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
