Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any time you port between languages, it's rarely a good idea to just > convert code verbatim. For example: > > import random, string > def random_char(): > return random.choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits)
Note that this code doesn't preserve the output distribution of the original, for which once expects half the characters to be numeric. I don't know if that's relevant; in fact I suspect that the original was buggy. -- [mdw] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
