Re: [Numpy-discussion] Random integers

[Robert K. <rob...@gm...>]

Charles R Harris wrote:
> 
> On 10/23/06, *Tim Hochberg* <tim...@ie... 
> <mailto:tim...@ie...>> wrote:
> 
>     Albert Strasheim wrote:
>      > Hello all
>      >
>      > I'm trying to generate random 32-bit integers. None of the
>     following seem to
>      > do the trick with NumPy 1.0.dev3383:
>      >
>      > In [32]: N.random.randint (-2**31, 2**31-1)
>      > ValueError: low >= high
> 
> There should be a raw output from mtrand somewhere that gives random 
> uint32 output which you might be able to cast somehow. Really, there 
> should also be a signed output somewhere but I haven't looked closely at 
> the mtrand interface.

There is RandomState.tomaxint(), which returns signed integers >= 0 and <= 
sys.maxint. It didn't get exposed at the module level, for some reason, though.

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Robert Kern

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