Generate random number between 0.1 and 1.0. Python

Question

I\'m trying to generate a random number between 0.1 and 1.0. We can\'t use rand.randint because it returns integers. We have also tried random.uniform(0.1

Answer 1

According to the Python 3.0 documentation:

random.uniform(a, b) Return a random floating point number N such that a <= N <= b for a <= b and b <= N <= a for b < a.

Thus, random.uniform() does, in fact, include the upper limit, at least on Python 3.0.

EDIT: As pointed out by @Blender, the documentation for Python 3.0 seems to be inconsistent with the source code on this point.

EDIT 2: As pointed out by @MarkDickinson, I had unintentionally linked to the Python 3.0 documentation instead of the latest Python 3 documentation here which reads as follows:

random.uniform(a, b) Return a random floating point number N such that a <= N <= b for a <= b and b <= N <= a for b < a.

The end-point value b may or may not be included in the range depending on floating-point rounding in the equation a + (b-a) * random().