[ILUG] Generate random numbers and survey results analysis

[Nick Murtagh]

Patrick O'Connor wrote:
> I was hoping to use the lnux rand() or srand() functions to randomly pick 8
> winners from a number range of 1 to 145 but my efforts have been fruitless
> so far.
> Does anyone have a script that I can use to accomplish this?

$ python
>>> import random
>>> l = range(1, 146)
>>> random.shuffle(l)
>>> l[:8]
[136, 60, 123, 132, 40, 79, 33, 53]


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