On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:26, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Python is telling you its bytes with the b at the front. > The \x tells you they are hex values. > > (*)The fact its 5 is odd since you seem to pass 6 as an argument! > When I try it I get 6 bytes back. Yes, the number of bytes seems to <= 6, or is it?: >>> os.urandom(6) b'\xf1\x1c\x15\x83\x14\x0e' >>> os.urandom(6) b'l\xbb\xae\xb7\x0ft' >>> os.urandom(6) b'\x1f\x00~\xfbz\x98' >>> os.urandom(6) b'\x98\xd2\xb2\xaa\x9bv' >>> os.urandom(6) b'2\x07\x81v\n-' >>> os.urandom(6) b'\x93\x1d\x1a\xa1\x0e\x1d' >>> os.urandom(6) b'`G\xa9_\xbab' >>> os.urandom(6) b'\r\xb0?p\x85\xc7' >>> os.urandom(6) b'\xb5\x1cn!\x93\xf4' >>> os.urandom(6) b'M\x0f\x1f34B' And what's with the l in b'l\xbb\xae\xb7\x0ft' ? the 2 in b'2\x07\x81v\n-' ? the `G in b'`G\xa9_\xbab' ? the \r in b'\r\xb0?p\x85\xc7' ? the M in b'M\x0f\x1f34B' ? Alan, are you using Windows, as I am? I apologize to all for not explaining what I'm trying to accomplish. I just ran across os.urandom() and am trying to understand it. I have a script that I use to create passwords for my various website accounts, <http://tutoree7.pastebin.com/31AisCq1>, but wondered if website-permitted, but stronger passwords could be generated with the use of os.urandom(). At this point, I think not. (To Steven D'Aprano: yeah I know now, thanks to you, that the organization and modularization of > <http://tutoree7.pastebin.com/31AisCq1> is woefully deficient :) ) Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
