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Richard B
Richard B

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How can I generate random numbers in Python?

#help #python

Could anyone help walk me through the process of generating random numbers in Python?

More specifically, I'm trying to generate random numbers from a specified range.

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Rick Measham •

@swizzard and @yechielk are right on here.

randint() will return a number integer between range_min and range_max inclusive. So if you call randint(1,10) you will get a random integer equal to 1, 2, 3, ..., 9, 10.

The random library has a number of useful functions in it for dealing with random things. For example if you need a random element from a list, use choice(): 

suit = choice(['hearts', 'diamonds', 'spades', 'clubs'])
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Documentation is here: docs.python.org/3/library/random.html

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Richard B •

Awesome thank you so much. Taking a look at that documentation now 👀

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Yechiel (he/him) • 
from random import randint

random_number = randint(1, 100)
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Will give you a number between 1 and 100

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Richard B •

thanks Yechiel 😀

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Sam Raker • 
from random import randint

range_min = 0
range_max = 10

a_number = randint(range_min, range_max)
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Tawfik Yasser • 
from random import randint
base = 1
limit = 10
print(randint(base ,limit))
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Michael Currin •

Hi. I wrote a Cheatsheet here which covers random strings, integers, floats and more.

michaelcurrin.github.io/dev-cheats...

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