On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Michael Poeltl
<michael.poe...@univie.ac.at> wrote:
>>>> import random, string
>>>> def random_number(id):
> ... characters = list(string.ascii_lowercase +
> ... string.ascii_uppercase +
> ... string.digits)
> ... coll_rand = []
> ... for i in range(6):
> ... random.shuffle(characters)
> ... coll_rand.append(characters[0])
> ... return ''.join(coll_rand)
You don't need to do all that list manipulation. This is probably quicker:
def random_number(): # Unused "id" parameter omitted
characters = (string.ascii_lowercase +
string.ascii_uppercase +
string.digits)
return ''.join(random.choice(characters) for i in range(6))
Cheers,
Ian
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