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Hi , I am trying to output the below script to a premade variable, The point of the script is to add a random integer between 1-20 to said variable. I know this is a very basic script but my issue is getting it to output in PAD. Its not that the script is wrong as I have checked in IDLE etc.

Script in use:

import random

# Generate a random integer between 1 and 20
random_number = random.randint(1, 20)

# Define a variable
my_variable = int("""%FlightTime%""")

# Add the random number to the variable
my_variable += random_number

print(my_variable)

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Any assistance would be appreciated

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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Under Advanced, point the folder where import module lies. They python code in PAD needs that path to access those modules

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To add to what @MichaelAnnis said - PAD uses Python 2.0. It does not support later versions of Python. It does install some modules automatically with the PAD package. So, it is not really always necessary to point to the path
where the modules are stored.

You can enable the %ScriptError% variable to make it easier to debug the issue. It is disabled by default, but you can enable it here:

I've just tested it and in fact it doesn't find a module named 'random'.

That's why it doesn't output anything. Otherwise your script would be fine. It works fine with another sample script I had at hand that uses the module 'datetime' that comes pre-installed with PAD.

In this case you would in fact need to provide a path to where Python modules are stored (outside of the PAD installation path) in your local system.
In my case that's C:\Users\agnius\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Lib

However, since I've got Python 3.8 installed on my system (as you can probably tell from the name of the folder), the random module does not work with PAD at all. It throws a syntax error.
So, if you want to run a Python script in PAD that requires a Python module that does not come pre-installed with PAD, you would need to install Python 2 on your system and then target the modules library in the Module folder path field.
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Thanks again Agnius that worked perfectly, and Thanks Michael to 🙂

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