I was testing a bug where a field was limited to 255 characters only. I needed to generate a string of more than 255 characters.
The simplest code I found:
# Generate string of only character 'a' 300 times
'a' * 300This will generate a string of 300 characters
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......Or, you can mix characters
'a' * 100 + 'b' * 100 + 'hey master'Function to Generate strings of arbitrary length
def gen(character, length):
return character * length
# to use
>>> gen('a',20)
'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'
>>> gen('a',20) + gen('b',10)
'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbb'Use Random Number library to generate arbitrary string
Using module random
import string
import random
# for upper case ascii characters, and 10 characters long
''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(10))
# In a method
def generate(characters=string.ascii_uppercase, length = 10):
return ''.join(random.choice(characters) for _ in range(length))
>>> generate()
'GSPUYMYMLB'
# For having upper case as well as numerics
>>> generate(characters=string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits)
'X9O814PS58'
# For longer string
>>> generate(characters=string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits, length=20)
'7HCYBJAQP9N48TC179Q8'$ subscribe --weekly
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