G'day :)
I started getting sick of reading tutorials so for a bit of a break I set
myself the task of writing a program to pick lotto numbers, 6 numbers
between 1 and 44 (inclusive). I had done this many years before in basic and
I thought back then it would be a simple task but I struck a problem of the
random number generator repeating numbers occasionally so I had to check
each number against the other and generate another random number if there
were duplicates.
So I was prepared for the same problem with python but I found that python
takes care of that for me so the program would only have to be one line. I
decided to make it a little more user friendly and allow the user to pick
home many games they want generated. Then I made the output a little easier
to read with a few blank lines. Here is what I came up with:
import random
numberof = int(raw_input('Enter how many games you would like generated :'))
#user input for number of games to choose
print
print
print "Here are your numbers :"
print
for games in range(1, numberof + 1): #loop for the number of games selected
by user
lotto = random.sample(xrange(1,45), 6) #generate 6 random numbers
between 1 and 44 inclusive
print games, lotto
print
else:
print
print "Hope you win!"
I know this is a very simple program but... could I have done this a better
way?
John
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