sotirac: > random_number = random.sample([0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], 5) # choose 5 elements
But note that's without replacement. So if you want really random numbers you can do this: >>> from string import digits >>> from random import choice >>> "".join(choice(digits) for d in xrange(5)) '93898' If you need more speed you can invent other solutions, like (but I don't know if it's faster): >>> from random import shuffle >>> ldigits = list(digits) >>> ldigits ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9'] >>> shuffle(ldigits) >>> ldigits ['3', '8', '6', '4', '9', '7', '5', '2', '0', '1'] >>> "".join(ldigits[:5]) '38649' But this may be the most efficient way: >>> from random import randrange >>> str(randrange(100000)).zfill(5) '37802' Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
