Problem with renpy.random

[minyan]

Hi, so I'm trying to use renpy.random to generate some random lines of dialogue, or for nothing to happen, whenever a certain button is pressed. The code I have works, but only once- the next time the button is pressed, it uses the same option as what was chosen before. How can I use renpy random to generate more than one outcome?

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    $ randomconvo = renpy.random.randint(1,6)

    if randomconvo == 3:
        "blugh
    elif randomconvo == 2:
        "bleh"
    elif randomconvo == 6:
        "blah

Thanks in advance for the help!

[Alex]

To make it work you need to re-run this line

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$ randomconvo = renpy.random.randint(1,6)

each time you need a random number.
So, you need to show more code: how did you make your certain button and where in the game flow you need to get this random dialogs.

[minyan]

To make it work you need to re-run this line

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$ randomconvo = renpy.random.randint(1,6)

each time you need a random number.
So, you need to show more code: how did you make your certain button and where in the game flow you need to get this random dialogs.

so the code is under a label that's called every time a button is pressed. The $randomconvo variable is assigned right under the label, so I assumed it would be rerun each time the jump to that label was made, but it hasn't worked that way.

so here's the button:

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                            textbutton "[name] action Jump("Commentary")

and the label

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label Commentary:

    $ randomconvo = renpy.random.randint(1,10)

[Alex]

Hm, it should work...
How's your code different from that sample?

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screen bttn_scr():
    textbutton "Press Me" action Jump("my_label") align (0.5,0.05)
    
label my_label:
    $ var = renpy.random.randint(1,3)
    if var == 1:
        "...[var]..."
    elif var == 2:
        "___[var]___"
    else:
        "~~~[var]~~~"
    jump start
    
label start:
    scene black
    show screen bttn_scr
    "..."
    "?"

[minyan]

Hm, it should work...
How's your code different from that sample?

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screen bttn_scr():
    textbutton "Press Me" action Jump("my_label") align (0.5,0.05)
    
label my_label:
    $ var = renpy.random.randint(1,3)
    if var == 1:
        "...[var]..."
    elif var == 2:
        "___[var]___"
    else:
        "~~~[var]~~~"
    jump start
    
label start:
    scene black
    show screen bttn_scr
    "..."
    "?"

After testing it some more times, I found it was working properly! I think the issue was I was trying to get it to make a new integer just by using rollback rather than leaving the scenario and coming back again like players would actually do in the game. Thank you!