Hi,
My first question
I am try to generate random password strings of an arbitrary user
selected length. I read to generate a random string of a user supplied
length I can use os.urandom(n). I want to convert the output to a human
readable string. I would like to store the string for later processing.
Also, I would like to limit the characters to the US keyboard, so I
might be using the wrong function.
The following is the output from my terminal - Python 3.3.4 on Manjaro
Linux shows the generation of a random :
Python 3.3.4 (default, Feb 11 2014, 15:56:08)
[GCC 4.8.2 20140206 (prerelease)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from os import urandom
>>> a = urandom(16)
>>> type(a)
<class 'bytes'>
>>> a_str = a.decode()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb1 in position 0:
invalid start byte
>>>
I am probably missing something very obvious.
Thanks in advance!
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Jay Lozier
jsloz...@gmail.com
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