Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] AtomicString

[David W. <wo...@cs...>]

On 25-Aug-08, at 3:19 PM, Yuri Takhteyev wrote:

>> def getRandomToken(n=10, seed=RND_SEED):
>>    random.seed(seed)
>>    return "".join([chr(random.randint(97, 122)) for i in range(n)])
> ....
> return "".join([chr(random.randint(LOWERCASE_ASCII_A,
> LOWERCASE_ASCII_Z)) for i in range(n)])
> And then suddenly "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"[random.randint(1,26)]
> doesn't look so verbose. :)

Now, if we're going to be arguing about generating universally unique  
identifiers... I feel like I should chime in with one module I've  
been making heavy use of recently: uuid!

 >>> from uuid import uuid4
 >>> uuid4().hex
'6908a7924f4d46bf915da19876c93368'
 >>>