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

It’s quite ugly, unreliable, and not really fast, but it works :

>>> import time
>>> t = time.time()
>>> int(str(t-int(t))[2:])%100 #Keeping only the numbers after the decimal point, otherwise you would get the same "random" number each second
33

The range here is [0,99] (cf the modulo 100).
Use it at your own risk.