Thanks very much, Kent and Alan. I'm thinking that just for the hell of it I could use urandom() as a source of random decimal digits. Or in a coin tossing program. Here's a list of 7817 '1's and 0's generated by urandom():
>>> from os import urandom >>> lst = list(urandom(1000000)) >>> tosses = [y for y in lst if y in '01'] >>> len(tosses) 7817 >>> Would this be a better random source than choice([0,1]), which uses random()? Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
