<p>I am trying to use the <code>import random</code> statement in python, but it doesn't appear to have any methods in it to use.</p>

<p>Am I missing something?</p>

I think you need to give some more information.  It's not really possible to answer why it's not working based on the information in the question.  The basic documentation for random is at:
https://docs.python.org/library/random.html
You might check there.