Wondering if there is a better way to generate string of numbers with
a length of 5 which also can have a 0 in the front of the number.
If you want to resample the same digit multiple times, either of these
two will do:
>>> from random import choice
>>> ''.join(str(choice(range(10))) for _ in range(5))
'06082'
>>> from string import digits
>>> ''.join(choice(digits) for _ in range(5))
'09355'
If you need to prevent the digits from being reused
>>> d = list(digits)
>>> random.shuffle(digit)
>>> ''.join(d[:5])
'03195'
I suspect that the zfill responses don't have the property of equally
distributed "randomness", as the first digit may more likely be a zero.
The methods here should give equal probabilities for each choice in
each place.
-tkc
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