random.choice

[jaclyn.bill]

I'm having some issues using random.choice which seem like a bug.

At the top of my script I have imported random and other random options are working in the script (e.g. random.uniform). However random choice keeps resulting in the error

'module' object has no attribute 'choice'

this is my code...


def createpath():

Side_select = ([5.0,-5.0])
XEXTENT = random.choice(Side_select) ### furthest extent of road
XRANDOM = random.uniform(0.0,1.5) ###
ZCOORD = linspace(0.0, METERS,POINTS) #### z coords 0 - meters
XCOORD = cos(ZCOORD/18.0)*XEXTENT*sin(ZCOORD/10.0)*XRANDOM




The strange issue is that when I start a fresh vizard file with just bottom five lines random.choice works.

Anyone have any ideas why this might be? I really need this to work within the context of my whole script.

[farshizzo]

I would need to see your entire script to know what the problem is. It sounds like you are assigning another object to the name random. Please post the entire script. Also, try adding the following code before the line where accessing random.choice fails:print random

[jaclyn.bill]

Hi,

There was no other object assigned to random. I have actually got it to work this morning by typing



import random



before every call of the random command. I'm not sure why this works, but it does! Thank you.

J