Creating a file with $SIZE

[Chris]

On Mar 12, 12:52 pm, Chris <cwi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 12, 12:32 pm, "k.i.n.g." <nkanthiki... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > I would like create files of different size, taking size as user
> > input. I need to check the data transfer rates from one network to
> > another . In order to do this I will have to create files of diff size
> > and work out. I am new to Python
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> > KK
>
> Welcome to Python.
>
> If you just want to create files with random junk from the user input
> then maybe something along these lines would help:
>
> import sys, random
>
> def random_junk(number_of_characters):
>     tmp = []
>     while number_of_characters:
>         tmp.append(random.randint(0, 127))
>         number_of_characters -= 1
>     return ''.join(map(str,tmp))
>
> if len(sys.argv) < 2:
>     sys.exit('Usage:python %s <space seperated
> filesizes>'%sys.argv[0])
>
> for each_argv in sys.argv[1:]:
>     output_file = open(each_argv,'wb').write(random_junk(each_argv))

Sorry, meant

def random_junk(number_of_characters):
    tmp = []
    while number_of_characters:
        tmp.append(chr(random.randint(0, 127)))
        number_of_characters -= 1
    return ''.join(tmp)