Question

I would like to generate a random number string of N length with this code:

import random
import string

N=512
print ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits + string.ascii_lowercase) for x in range(N))

What is missing is that I would like to add “special characters like e.g. “@,;:.§$%&/(!””
And I would like to output that to .txt file with a newline after for a example 10,15 signs.

Any help would be great.

Thanks for the time.

Answer 1

import random
import string

allowable_gibberish = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + string.punctuation
def gibberish_maker(gibberish=allowable_gibberish,n=512,new_line_every=15):
    str = ''.join(random.choice(gibberish) for x in range(n))
    return '\n'.join(str[i:i+new_line_every] for i in xrange(0, len(str), new_line_every))

Note: string.ascii_letters is the same as string.ascii_uppercase + string.ascii_lowercase.