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		llimllib on April 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A common bug in published code > I can't speak for Python, but in Java it's quite simple to do it right http://docs.python.org/library/random.html#random.randint

streety on April 22, 2011 [–]

Actually the python equivalent of "Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed int value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive)" would be random.randrange(0, n, 1)

random.randint(a, b) returns a uniformly distributed int value between a (inclusive) and b (inclusive).

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