> Hello again python tutor list. > I have what I see as a somewhat complicated problem which I have no idea > where to begin. I'm hoping you fine folks can help me. > > I'm trying to generate a list of every possible 16 character string > containing only 2-7 and a-z lowercase. I've seen some examples using regex > to define which characters I want to use but not a way to generate the > complete list of all possibilities. I'm not looking for a handout- just a > point in the right direction. > > Any information would be awesome, thanks. > > Right now I've got something like: > > import random >>>> ''.join(random.choice('234567abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz') for i in >>>> range(16)) > > Which only prints 1 number, obviously. > > or possibly something like this: > > > def genKey(): > hash = hashlib.md5(RANDOM_NUMBER).digest().encode("base32") > alnum_hash = re.sub(r'[^a-z2-7]', "", hash) > return alnum_hash[:16] > > > Keeping in mind that although I understand this code, I did not write it, > I > got it from stackoverflow. > > Again any help would be great. Feel free to ask if you must know exactly > what I'm trying to do. > > I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and python 2.7 > > Scott
This seems to work: #!/usr/bin/env python # file : every.py print 'Running "every.py"' possible = "234567abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" word_length = 16 word_list = [] def add_word(word): if len(word)==word_length: word_list.append(word) print word # There may come a time you won't want this line. else: for c in possible: new_word = word + c add_word(new_word) add_word("") # print word_list _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor