On Sep 28, 4:08 pm, Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary M. Josack wrote: > > Aaron "Castironpi" Brady wrote: > >> On Sep 28, 2:59 pm, sotirac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> 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. > > >>> <pre> > >>> random_number = random.sample([0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], 5) # choose 5 > >>> elements > >>> code = 'this is a string' + str(random_number[0]) + > >>> str(random_number[1]) + str(random_number[2]) + str(random_number[3]) > >>> + str(random_number[4]) > >>> </pre> > > >> '%05i'%random.randint(0,99999) > >> -- > >>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > This produces numbers other than 5 digit numbers. making the start > > number 10000 should be fine. > > Why do you think it's wrong? > > > > >>> import random > >>> '%05i'%random.randint(0,99999) > '09449' > > IMO it's exactly what was required. > > Ciao, Michael.
As you read, there isn't agreement on whether the OP wanted replacement. His original code didn't; his spec seemed to. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
