Question

I need to have a 100000 characters long string. What is the most efficient and shortest way of producing such a string in python?
The content of the string is not of importance.

Answer 1

Something like:

'x' * 100000 # or,

''.join('x' for x in xrange(100000)) # or,

from itertools import repeat
''.join(repeat('x', times=100000))

Or for a bit of a mixup of letters:

from string import ascii_letters
from random import choice
''.join(choice(ascii_letters) for _ in xrange(100000))

Or, for some random data:

import os
s = os.urandom(100000)