On Sep 28, 4:02�pm, Tim Chase <[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. > > 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.
Does he want equal probabilities of each digit in each place? > > -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
