Alberto If you don't mind having leading 0 then you could just do the random like you did then format it to 9 digits.
You could give this a try num = random.randrange(00000000,99999999) num8 = "%09i" % num John Ertl -----Original Message----- From: Byron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 1:50 PM To: Alberto Troiano; tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Generate 8 digit random number Hi Alberto, Here's how to do it: ------------------------------- import random def generateKey(): nums = "0123456789" strNumber = "" count = 0 while (count < 8): strNumber += nums[random.randrange(len(nums))] count += 1 print strNumber # A quick test... count = 0 while (count < 10000): generateKey() count += 1 ------------------------------- Byron :-) --- Alberto Troiano wrote: > Hi everyone > > I need to generate a password..It has to be an 8 digit number and it has to > be random > > The code I've been trying is the following: > > > import random > random.randrange(00000000,99999999) > > The code works but sometimes it picks a number with 7 digits. Is there any > way that I can tell him to select always a random number with 8 digits? > > Thanks in advanced > > Alberto > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor