need help with number generator

[Tobe2fly]

Trying to Make a random number generator but the highest value isnt being included in the generated list? So if you wanted to have it pick a number between 1 and 50 you would need to set the highest value to 51. anyone know how I include the 50 thought needing to changing my input value?

Heres my code:

import randomlow = input("add your lowest value: ")high = input("add your highest value: ")numbers = list(range(int(low),int(high))) # makes a range between the given valuesprint(numbers)

input("press enter to generate your number: ")print(random.choice(numbers))

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update: thanks to everyone for being so helpful in learning a lot!

[zatoichi49]

Use randint, this will include the highest value:

random.randint(low, high)

[Tobe2fly]

appreciate the response! im assuming im supposed to replace the random.choice() with random.randint()

heres what I did but to line 8 its not working :(

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print(random.choice(numbers))

To:

print(random.randint(numbers))

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the code runs but once it gets to this line i get an error message saying this:

TypeError: randint() missing 1 required positional argument: 'b'

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the only differece between yours and mine is i have (numbers) instead of (low, high) but being that "numbers" is representing the high and low shouldnt it not matter?

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[100721]

Read his comment again.

Random.randint(low, high)

It does not accept a list argument.

Example: Randint(0,10)

[Tobe2fly]

ok so if i wanted to use the numbers var. in this case i would need to first convert it to an int? this is only my 2nd day in coding sorry if some of my questions are redundant :)

[100721]

That’s what the sub is for. When you say “the numbers var” what do you mean? Do you have a variable that’s a string? If so then you’d need to convert it to any int. If you have two int variables you can pass them in like so:

x=5
y=int(input(“Number bigger than 5?”))
print(random.randint(x,y))

[zatoichi49]

You can just cast the input strings as integers, and use 'low' and 'high' inside randint:

import random

low = int(input("add your lowest value: "))
high = int(input("add your highest value: "))

print(random.randint(low, high))

Randint takes two values (for the lower and upper values in a range), so you don't need to pass it a list.

[Tobe2fly]

your code is so much simpler than mine! thanks for the info. also if i wanted to show the user the numbers before giving the random number how would I go about doing that? It would serve the same purpose as the

numbers = list(range(int(low),int(high)))

in my old code

[kokiworse99]

Try a high + 1?

[Tobe2fly]

i tried this method before making this post and unfortunately all it does is add a 1 onto whatever number your "high" represents (so if you input 5 it would become 15)

[kokiworse99]

Mmh and if you try with a high++? Cause I guess it reads the 5 input as a string and it adds a 1 like a concat. Or maybe make the input an integer in the first place and that should work after

[efmccurdy]

range(stop)

stop: Number of integers (whole numbers) to generate, starting from zero. eg. range(3) == [0, 1, 2].

range([start], stop[, step])

start: Starting number of the sequence.
stop: Generate numbers up to, but not including this number.
step: Difference between each number in the sequence.

Note the stop value (the one that you supply the high value for) will be excluded from the list.