Generate random points above and below a line in Python

I would like to generate random points on an x,y scatter plot that are either above or below a given line. For example, if the line is y=x I would like to generate a list of points in the top left of the plot (above the line) and a list of points in the bottom right of the plot (below the line). Here's is an example where the points are above or below y=5:

import random
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

num_points = 10
x1 = [random.randrange(start=1, stop=9) for i in range(num_points)]
x2 = [random.randrange(start=1, stop=9) for i in range(num_points)]
y1 = [random.randrange(start=1, stop=5) for i in range(num_points)]
y2 = [random.randrange(start=6, stop=9) for i in range(num_points)]

plt.scatter(x1, y1, c='blue')
plt.scatter(x2, y2, c='red')
plt.show()

However, I generated the x and y points independently, which limits me to equations where y = c (where c is a constant). How can I expand this to any y=mx+b?