On 2010-02-24 13:16 PM, mk wrote:
On 2010-02-24 20:01, Robert Kern wrote:
I will repeat my advice to just use random.SystemRandom.choice() instead
of trying to interpret the bytes from /dev/urandom directly.
Out of curiosity:
def gen_rand_string(length):
prng = random.SystemRandom()
chars = []
for i in range(length):
chars.append(prng.choice('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'))
return ''.join(chars)
if __name__ == "__main__":
chardict = {}
for i in range(10000):
## w = gen_rand_word(10)
w = gen_rand_string(10)
count_chars(chardict, w)
counts = list(chardict.items())
counts.sort(key = operator.itemgetter(1), reverse = True)
for char, count in counts:
print char, count
s 3966
d 3912
g 3909
h 3905
a 3901
u 3900
q 3891
m 3888
k 3884
b 3878
x 3875
v 3867
w 3864
y 3851
l 3825
z 3821
c 3819
e 3819
r 3816
n 3808
o 3797
f 3795
t 3784
p 3765
j 3730
i 3704
Better, although still not perfect.
This distribution is well within expectations.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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