[Tutor] Generate 8 digit random number
Terry Carroll
carroll at tjc.com
Sat Aug 27 00:06:05 CEST 2005
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Alberto Troiano wrote:
> I need to generate a password..It has to be an 8 digit number and it has
> to be random
>
> import random
> random.randrange(00000000,99999999)
>
> The code works but sometimes it picks a number with 7 digits. Is there any
> way that I can tell him to select always a random number with 8 digits?
well, you've gotten a lot of good answers, so let me chime in with a
really ugly one:
>>> ''.join(['0000000',str(random.randrange(00000000,99999999))])[-8:]
'00101381'
(I don't really recommend this, but this is pretty much akin to the
prefered way in IBM's EXEC2 language as I used to use it some 25 years
ago!)
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