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

You still need some range, i.e., a min-max possible value excluding your middle values.

Why don't you first randomly pick which "half" of the range you want, then pick a random number in that range? E.g.:

def rand_not_in_range(a,b):
    rangechoices = ((0,a-b-1),(a+b+1, 10000000))
    # Pick a half
    fromrange = random.choice(rangechoices)
    # return int from that range
    return random.randint(*fromrange)