szaydel
12/1/2018 - 1:23 PM

Simple Random String Generator in Python

Every time I need to quickly generate some randomness I keep hacking something new together. This should hopefully save some time, if I remember that I have it in my toolbox. :)

randstr.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'
import random
import sys

if __name__ == "__main__":
    end = 1000
    if len(sys.argv[:]) > 1:
        _end = int(sys.argv[1])
        if _end > 0:
            end = _end
    res = ""
    for i in range(0, end):
        res += chars[random.randint(0,len(chars)-1)]
    print res