Python random function

Question

I\'m having problems with Python\'s import random function. It seems that import random and from random import random are importing different thing

Answer 1

import random imports the random module, which contains a variety of things to do with random number generation. Among these is the random() function, which generates random numbers between 0 and 1.

Doing the import this way this requires you to use the syntax random.random().

The random function can also be imported from the module separately:

from random import random

This allows you to then just call random() directly.