Random strings in Python

Question

How do you create a random string in Python?

I needed it to be number then character repeat till you're done this is what I created

def random_id(length):     number = '0123456789'     alpha = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'     id = ''     for i in range(0,length,2):         id += random.choice(number)         id += random.choice(alpha)     return id 

Answer 1

Generating strings from (for example) lowercase characters:

import random, string  def randomword(length):    letters = string.ascii_lowercase    return ''.join(random.choice(letters) for i in range(length)) 

Results:

>>> randomword(10) 'vxnxikmhdc' >>> randomword(10) 'ytqhdohksy' 

Answer 2

Since this question is fairly, uh, random, this may work for you:

>>> import uuid >>> print uuid.uuid4() 58fe9784-f60a-42bc-aa94-eb8f1a7e5c17