On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:54:40 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:30:46 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: >> >>> I want to create a string of 20 random digits (I'm OK with leading >>> zeros). The best I came up with is: >>> >>> ''.join(str(random.randint(0, 9)) for i in range(20)) >>> >>> Is there something better? >> >> '%20d' % random.randint(0, 10**20-1) > > I should mention that this sort of thing is absolutely acceptable in > situations where you don't actually need that level of randomness;
Use the Source, Luke, er, Chris :) If I've read the source correctly, randint() will generate sufficient bits of randomness to ensure that the entire int is random. http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Lib/random.py -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
