Is there an alternative for the random module in Python?

Question

I was using Trypython.org, and found that there was no random module included, so got curious.

Is there an alternative method to generate random numbers within a certain range without importing random?

Answer 1

Generating random, or rather pseudo-random numbers is tricky business and it's best to stick to the default libraries. I would recommend you bite the bullet and download Python 2.7.2 or 3.2.3 and then you can play around with any other libraries not included by trypython as well.