On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:17:44 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: >> Here's something which is a little less predictable than a straight >> counter: > > It's still very easy to generate valid id's from that, or guess the next > one with non-negligible probability.
Well, in my specific application, the only consequences of guessing a valid id is that you get to congratulate yourself for guessing a valid id :) As it turned out, I decided that since the only reason I had for avoiding consecutive ids was that they didn't look random, and that this would not really matter because no human being (including myself) was actually going to be looking at them except during debugging, I used the intertools.count() solution. Thanks to all who replied. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
