How do I generate a random alphanumeric string in Python?

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I have been migrating javascript code to python and I am stuck trying to get a python version of
Math.random().toString(36)

I’m not sure how to do this since Math.random() returns a float, in python I have not been able to figure out how to convert a float to base36. From what I understand it’s only int but then how does javascript do it?

for getting a random float in python I just use the following:

import random

random.uniform(0, 1)

and for encoding I used the wiki example:

#from wiki
def base36encode(integer: int) -> str:
    ...

-EDIT:
original js code:

function randomString(length) {
    return Array(length + 1).join((Math.random().toString(36) + '00000000000000000').slice(2, 18)).slice(0, length);
}

Asked By: Marco Fernandes

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Answer 1

Going from comments. In JS using base36 is done to generate random alphanumeric characters. That is 26 from the alphabet + 10 digits.

In python you can generate a random alphanumeric string of a given length like this:

import random, string

def random_string(length):
    return ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits) for _ in range(length))

Answered By: Azamat Galimzhanov

Answer 2

import random
import string

Define the length of the string

length = 10

Define the pool of characters to choose from

pool = string.ascii_letters + string.digits

Generate the random string

random_string = ''.join(random.choice(pool) for i in range(length))

print(random_string)

Answered By: danetgenius

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