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"""Random numbers in python http://docs.python.org/library/random.html """

1. First we need to import the random module:

import random

1. We can set the seed for the random number generator by:

random.seed(1)

1. this ensures that the series of number that are generated is
2. reproducible
3. get a random number between 0 and 9:

print random.randrange(0, 10)

a = range(0, 100)

1. shuffle the elements of the list:

random.suffle(a)

print random.uniform(0, 1)

1. Let's create an instance of the Random class:

rand = random.Random(10)

1. The argument we gave the constructor is the seed
2. now you can use all the functions in the random module as methods
3. of the instance we created:

print rand.randrange(0, 10) a = range(0, 100)

1. shuffle the elements of the list:

rand.suffle(a) print rand.uniform(0, 1)

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