Can Python generate a random number that excludes a set of numbers, without using recursion?

Question

I looked over Python Docs (I may have misunderstood), but I didn\'t see that there was a way to do this (look below) without calling a recursive function.
What I\'d like

Answer 1

A possible solution would be to just shift the random numbers out of that range. E.g.

def NormalWORange(a, b, sigma):
    r = random.normalvariate(a,sigma)
    if r < a:
        return r-b
    else:
        return r+b

That would generate a normal distribution with a hole in the range (a-b,a+b).

Edit: If you want integers then you will need a little bit more work. If you want integers that are in the range [c,a-b] or [a+b,d] then the following should do the trick.

def RangeWORange(a, b, c, d):
    r = random.randrange(c,d-2*b) # 2*b because two intervals of length b to exclude
    if r >= a-b:
        return r+2*b
    else:
        return r