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I would make a list of tuples where each tuple is (2,0),(-2,0),(0,2),etc... and put those in a list. Then you can use random.choice to pick a random one out of the list. How often are you going to be doing this next to the edge of the grid? If its not that much then I would just try to have it re-draw a new random choice from the list in those cases. This isn't an elegant solution, since it could take an unknown amount of time to draw something valid, but it might be fast enough in practice. Then if that ends up causing issues on the edge cases you could have some logic to select a list to draw from that only contains the valid choices. Also remember, don't assume that some part of your code is the slow part. Always profile it to get some actual information on how long each section is taking so you can optimize the parts of the code that actually need it. I use snakeviz for profiling python code.